WAYLAY, verb transitive [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. [In this word there is little difference of accent.]
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.