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Meanings of lying-in in English
Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child.
Usage of lying-in in English
1
Plenty of these scrawny infants may be seen in the lying-in hospitals.
2
Constipation, for various reasons, becomes a regular feature of the lying-in period.
3
Or I'll take myself back to the mauntery for the final lying-in.
4
Particular care should be taken of the fires in smithies and lying-in rooms.
5
He then quickly entered the lying-in room in which thy sire was born.
6
Charles White, an Edinburgh M.D., founded the Manchester Infirmary and Lying-in Hospital.
7
It was the Hanna Larchmont Lying-in Hospital seen from the rear.