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ˈlying-ˈin
[lying vbl. n.1 1 c. See lie v.1 23.]
a. The being in childbed; accouchement.
c1440Promp. Parv. 305/2 Lyynge yn, of childe bedde, decubie. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Gesine, a lying in. 1698Froger Voy. 126 The women have good Lying's-in and the children are lusty. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 93 Those cushions your gossips stick with pins in hearts, lozenges, and various forms, against a lying-in. 1842L. Hunt Men, Women & B. (1847) I. 342 The Queen talked to me [Madame de Sévigné] as long about my illness as if it had been a lying-in.
b. attrib., as lying-in-asylum, lying-in-chamber, etc.
1770Hewson in Phil. Trans. LX. 412 The British Lying-in-Hospital. 1799Med. Jrnl. II. 190 A lying-in ward has been lately established. 1823J. Constable Let. 24 Aug. in Corr. (1964) ii. 282 Miss Cookson is on a visit with another lying in sister. 1838Dickens O. Twist xxxvii, ‘The lying-in room, I suppose?’ said Mr. Bumble. 1861D. G. Rossetti Let. 20 Apr. (1965) II. 396 Dr. Babington, head of the Lying-in Hospital. 1887Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 May 1101/1 Such sanitation..might be of service in lying-in institutions. 1895Daily News 9 Dec. 3/7 A system of registration of all..lying-in houses. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 797 Statistics of lying-in hospitals show that [etc.]. 1912Q. Rev. July 60 A slight increase in the ratio of lying-in claims to the number of members... A lying-in benefit of 30s. 1964D. Owen Eng. Philanthropy i. ii. 50 The years 1749–65 saw the founding of..the British Lying-In (1749), the City of London Lying-In (1750),..these in addition to the Lying-In Charity,..established in 1757. 1975Country Life 2 Jan. 50/3 Villages which had a mutual aid or ‘lying-in society’.
So lying-in ppl. a., that is in childbed.
1710–11Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Mar., I..saw his lady sitting in the bed, in the forms of a lying-in woman. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 174 The sick, the delicate,..the lying-in. 1889J. M. Duncan Lect. Dis. Women xxii. (ed. 4) 189 In lying-in or recently delivered women. |