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| Noun | 1. |  lying in wait - the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise |
| Adj. | 1. | lying in wait - waiting in concealment; in ambush; "an army lying in wait in the forest" |
LYING IN WAIT. Being in ambush for the purpose of murdering another.
2. Lying in wait is evidence of deliberation and intention.
3. Where murder is divided into degrees, as in Pennsylvania, lying in
wait is such evidence of malice, that it makes the killing, when it takes
place, murder in the first degree. Vide. Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.