Wāy/lāy, v. t.

(Synop., § 130), v. t. [imp. & p. p. WAY-LAID; p. pr. & vb. n. WAYLAYING.] [From way and lay.] To lie in wait for; to come on in the way; especially, to watch insidiously in the way 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. W. Scott.