LYING-IN (lyings-in)

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Irregular inflected form: lyings-in   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lying-in mean? 

• LYING-IN (noun)
  The noun LYING-IN has 1 sense:

1. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

  Familiarity information: LYING-IN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYING-IN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail

Context example:

she was in labor for six hours

Hypernyms ("lying-in" is a kind of...):

birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition (the process of giving birth)

Meronyms (parts of "lying-in"):

uterine contraction (a rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal)

effacement (shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor)

asynclitism; obliquity (the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lying-in"):

premature labor; premature labour (labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation)

Holonyms ("lying-in" is a part of...):

gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)

 Context examples 

No; as soon as she recovered from her lying-in, for I found her near her delivery, I removed her and her child into the country, and there she remains.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and wished to see her children everything they ought to be; but her time was so much occupied in lying-in and teaching the little ones, that her elder daughters were inevitably left to shift for themselves; and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books—or at least books of information—for, provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She was preparing for her ninth lying-in; and after bewailing the circumstance, and imploring their countenance as sponsors to the expected child, she could not conceal how important she felt they might be to the future maintenance of the eight already in being.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)