lying-in : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lying-in	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for lying-in
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lying-in n concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" Synonym(s): parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lying-in \Ly"ing-in"\, n. 1. The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement. 2. The act of bearing a child.