Lying In Wait - Law Dictionary Search Results
lying in wait
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Forlay
To lie in wait for to ambush
bushwhack
to lie in ambush for lie in wait for
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Lurk
To lie hidden to lie in wait
Assassination
Assassination, murdering a person by lying in wait. In modern times the term is frequently applied to the open murder of great personages from political motives,
Await
Await [fr. awaiti, Wall., to watch, waiti, to look], the lying in wait to execute some mischief, See 13 Ric. 2, st. 2, by which no pardon is allowed for the
Malice
mind and formed design kills another, which formed design is evidenced by certain circumstances discovering such intentions, as lying in wait, antecedent menaces, former grudges, and concerted schemes to do him some bodily harm; or implied, as where one
Lurcher
One that lurches or lies in wait one who watches to pilfer or to betray or entrap one who lurks a lurker a poacher
VerbarSaltigradaelig
A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey the leaping spiders called also Salticidae
Crouch
down to stoop low to lie close to the ground with the logs bent as an animal when waiting for prey or in fear
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