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waylaid


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Waylay  \Way"lay`\  (?;  277),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Waylaid};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Waylaying}.]  [Way  +  lay.] 
  To  lie  in  wait  for  to  meet  or  encounter  in  the  way 
  especially,  to  watch  for  the  passing  of  with  a  view  to 
  seize,  rob,  or  slay;  to  beset  in  ambush. 
 
  Falstaff,  Bardolph,  Peto,  and  Gadshill  shall  rob  those 
  men  that  we  have  already  waylaid.  --Shak. 
 
  She  often  contrived  to  waylay  him  in  his  walks.  --Sir 
  W.  Scott. 




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