Definition of "lyings-in" [lyings-in]

• Plural form of lying-in. (noun)

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• "What becomes of them? what part dost thou perform, in the latter months of the pregnancy of thy only wife, and during her lyings-in and sexual maladies?"
• "Lady G., it were not for these frequent lyings-in! —"
• "Then, as quick as thought (for dreams, thou knowest confine not themselves to the rules of the drama) ensued recoveries, lyings-in, christenings, the smiling boy, amply, even in her own opinion, rewarding the suffering mother."