downlying

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English

Etymology

down +‎ lying

Noun

downlying (plural downlyings)

  1. The time of retiring to rest.
    • 1641, George Cavendish, Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe
      […] him in his house, down-lying and up-rising
  2. (Scotland) The travail in childbirth.

References

“downlying”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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