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One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.

y in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain. Of such matter made he many lays, Songs, complains, roundels, virelayes. Chaucer. To which a lady sung a virelay. Dryden.

unter 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.

One who waylays another.

A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.

A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.

21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted and the verbal…

rainedly ; -- often in a bad sense. He abandoned himself . . . to his favorite vice. Macaulay.

ood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

olence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

To wait; to pause; to delay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

ore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

To lay bare, as the roots of a tree. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. [Obs.] Evelyn.

work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.

e tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] Shak. And with her fled away without abode. Spenser.

h, to be filled with; to possess in great numbers. Men abounding in natural courage. Macaulay. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets of curiosities. Addison.

re in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.