单词 | lying-in |
释义 | lying-inn. a. The being in childbed; accouchement. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] childbeda1200 bend1297 gesinea1400 lying-inc1440 labour1472 down-lying1561 groaning1579 groaning-time1579 partion1656 crying out1692 accouchement1730 inlying1734 confinement1774 accubation1853 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 305/2 Lyynge yn, of childe bedde, decubie. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Gesine, a lying in. 1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 126 The women have good Lying's-in and the children are lusty. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 239 Those cushions your gossips stick with pins in hearts, lozenges and various forms against a lying in. 1842 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. (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. attributive, as lying-in-asylum, lying-in-chamber, etc. ΚΠ 1771 W. Hewson in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 412 The British Lying-in-Hospital. 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 190 A lying-in ward has been lately established. 1823 J. Constable Let. 24 Aug. in Corr. (1964) ii. 282 Miss Cookson is on a visit with another lying in sister. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xxxvi. 303 ‘The lying-in room, I suppose that means?’ said Mr. Bumble. 1861 D. G. Rossetti Let. 20 Apr. (1965) II. 396 Dr. Babington, head of the Lying-in Hospital. 1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 May 1101/1 Such sanitation..might be of service in lying-in institutions. 1895 Daily News 9 Dec. 3/7 A system of registration of all..lying-in houses. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 797 Statistics of lying-in hospitals show that [etc.]. 1912 Q. Rev. July 60 A slight increase in the ratio of lying-in claims to the number of members... A lying-in benefit of 30s. 1964 D. 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. 1975 Country Life 2 Jan. 50/3 Villages which had a mutual aid or ‘lying-in society’. Derivatives lying-in adj. that is in childbed. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective] childbed1494 in the strawa1661 lying-in1711 sick1828 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Mar. (1948) I. 222 I..saw his lady sitting in the bed, in the forms of a lying-in woman. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 174 The sick, the delicate,..the lying-in. 1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xvii. 176 In lying-in or recently delivered women. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。