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forelayverb
To lay down beforehand
forelayverb
To waylay
Again Lavis heard him: "You thought to forelay me, eh -- and breed panic above? uE000538837uE001 James B. Connally, Sonnie-Boy's People, 1913
forelay
To plan, contrive in advance
You folks had better forelay to come aboard by then. uE000538838uE001 Charles Neville Buck, The Tyranny of Weakness, 1917
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Forelayverb
To lay wait for; to intrap by ambush.
Etymology: fore and lay.
A serpent shoots his sting at unaware;
An ambush’d thief forelays a traveller:
The man lies murder’d, while the thief and snake,
One gains the thickets, and one thrids the brake. Dryden.
Webster Dictionary
Forelayverb
to lay down beforehand
Forelayverb
to waylay. See Forlay
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Forelay
fōr-lā′, v.t. to contrive antecedently: to lay wait for in ambush.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of forelay in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of forelay in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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