Found 2 hits - Term: lying-in, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lying-in \ly"ing-in"\, n.
1. the state attending, and consequent to, childbirth;
confinement; as, a lying-in hospital.
1913 webster
2. the act of bearing a child.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
lying-in
n : concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
syn: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, travail,
childbed
also: lyings-in pl
see also:
parturiency labor labour confinement travail childbed
lyings-in
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