Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WAY-LAY'
WAY-LAY', v.t. [way and lay.]
To watch insidiously in the way, with a view to seize, rob or slay; to beset in ambush; as, to waylay a traveler. – Milton. Dryden. [In this word there is little difference of accent.]
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