Way"lay` 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.
© Webster 1913.