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waylaid

[ wey-leyd, wey-leyd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb

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With this Henriette retired and the next morning on her way to early church I waylaid Norah.

As Aunt Zélie was on her way upstairs that night she was waylaid in the dimly lighted hall by three ghostly figures.

They had been out, from the fort at Wheeling, on a scouting party, and were waylaid at a pass called the narrows.

I waylaid him privately and asked if there was anything I could get or do—a tonic, a change.

Supposing he had been waylaid and surrounded by black-fellows!

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