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▪ I. † childing, vbl. n. Obs. or arch.|ˈtʃaɪldɪŋ|
Also 4 chiltyng, chiltting, Sc. childyne.
[f. child v. + -ing1.]
Child-bearing, parturition, delivery.
a1300Cursor M. 11021 Elizabeth..was..noght far fra childing. c1400Prymer in Maskell Mon. Rit. II. 40 In childynge of the unwemmed vyrgyn. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 205 A woman hade vij. childer at oon childenge. 1597Gerard Herbal i. xxi. 27 The throwes..that women haue in their childing. 1748tr. R. Mead's Influence Sun & Moon ii. 42 Women who stop'd childing early.
attrib.1655Francion ix. 22 Her childing throws did begin to grow..and she was delivered of a goodly Boy.
▪ II. ˈchilding, ppl. a. arch.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That bears a child or children, breeding; parturient, in labour; pregnant.
c1440Promp. Parv. 75 Chyldynge, or woman wythe chylde, pregnans. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 319 Þe oþer makeþ a childyng womman barayn. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 106/1 The childing or bearing woman, whie maie she not be baptised? 1637Brian Pisse-Proph. (1679) 86 Most childing women go a year..before they conceive with child again. 18..Southey Batt. Blenheim viii, Many a childing mother then, and new-born infant died. 1825― Paraguay i. 28 Tender care, to childing mothers due.
2. fig.
a. Fertile, fruitful.
b. Applied to some plants which produce younger or smaller florets around an older (regarded as parent) blossom; as childing daisy, childing pink.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. i. 112 The childing Autumne. 1609Heywood Brit. Troy v. xix. 111 By him [Saturn]..Childing Tellus beares. 1636Gerard's Herbal ii. cciii. 635 Another pretty double daisie, which..puts forth many foot⁓stalkes carrying also little double floures..whence they haue fitly termed it the childing Daisie. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 64/2 The Childing Pink groweth..on upright stalks. 1776Withering Bot. Arrangem. (1830) II. 539 Dianthus prolifer, Childing or Proliferous Pink. 1879Prior Plant-n., Childing Cudweed, Gnaphalium germanicum. |