downlying

English

Etymology

down +‎ lying

Noun

downlying (plural downlyings)

1. The time of retiring to rest.

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2. (Scotland) The travail in childbirth.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “downlying”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• lying down