Adjective : a lying-in hospital. From Dictionary.com.
Lady G., it were not for these frequent lyings-in! —. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
The daily business of this good lady was to scold the maids, collect eggs, feed the turkeys and assist at all lyings-in that happened within the parish. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
Said he, You know Mr. Martin's character, and have severely censured him in one of your letters, as one of my brother rakes, and for his three lyings-in. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
Various French terms, enceinte and accouchement among them, were imported to conceal the fact that careless wives occasionally became pregnant and had lyings-in. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4. American and English Today. 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words] Reference
There is 'Squire Martin in the grove, has had three lyings-in, it seems, in his house, in three months past; one by himself; and one by his coachman; and one by his woodman; and yet he has turned none of them away. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
No doubt if she had made a few of the well-known feminine concessions would have looked at least ten years younger than her age, for she had never had a day's illness: eight lyings-in were not, in her case, to be counted as exceptions. From Wordnik.com. [Black Oxen] Reference
All, however, agreed in wishing that the emperor had been blessed with two such handsome princes, and said, "He might have had children as old, if the queen, who had suffered the punishment of her misfortune, had been more fortunate in her lyings-in.". From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete] Reference
I told her, as to her child, which she called her burthen, it should be no burthen to me; as to the rest she might do as she pleased; it might however do me this favor, that I should have no more lyings-in at the rate of £136 at a time, as I found she intended it should be now. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference
If these discharges do not flow so plentifully as may be expected or if they entirely stop, no regard need be paid to this circumstance, if the patient be otherwise as well as can be wished, for this evacuation is not only different in different women, but even in the same women in different lyings-in, from which she recovers equally well. From Wordnik.com. [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference
She remembered the wild screams that had accompanied her mother’s regular lyings-in. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
You know Mr. Martin’s character, and have severely censured him in one of your letters, as one of my brother rakes, and for his three lyings-in. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
‘Squire Martin in the grove, has had three lyings-in, it seems, in his house, in three months past; one by himself; and one by his coachman; and one by his woodman; and yet he has turned none of them away. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
(886) A gossiping old Florentine nobleman, whose whole employment was to inform himself of the state of marriages, pregnancies, lyings-in, and such like histories. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
Why, what with cousins, uncles, aunts, and relationships of this, that, and t'other degree, and whatnot degree, and marriages, and lyings-in, the Swidgers -- Tumbler -- might take hold of hands, and make a ring round England! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain] Reference
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