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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trust \Trust\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Trusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trusting}.] [OE. trusten, trosten. See {Trust}, noun]
1. To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.
I will never trust his word after. --Shak.
He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived. --Johnson.
2. To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
Trust me, you look well. --Shak.
3. To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face. --2 John 12.
We trustwe have a good conscience. --Heb. xiii. 18.
4. to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. --Dryden.
5. To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. --Macaulay.
6. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
7. To risk; to venture confidently.
[Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trusting \Trust"ing\, adjective Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- {Trust"ing*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
trusting
adjective
1: inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall [syn: {trustful}] [ant: {distrustful}]
2: tending to trust; "she had an open and trusting nature"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "trusting": artless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, candid, childlike, confident, confiding, credulous, dependent, depending, direct, doting, easily taken in, easy of belief, fond, frank, guileless, gullible, incautious, inclined to believe, infatuated, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, openhearted, outspoken, overconfiding, overcredulous, overtrustful, overtrusting, plain, reliant, relying, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, superstitious, trustful, trusty, uncritical, undoubting, unguarded, unreserved, unskeptical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, without suspicion
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