lie in
See also: lie-in
English
Verb
- (archaic) To be brought to bed in childbirth.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 467:
- he had been driven to it by the distress he mentioned, the greatest indeed imaginable, that of five hungry children, and a wife lying in of the sixth, in the utmost want and misery.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 467:
- (UK) To stay in bed (longer than usual).
- I've got a day off tomorrow, so I might lie in till about 11.