| 单词 | at downlying |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat (the) downlying 2. The action of a woman taking to bed for the birth of a child; confinement. Frequently in at (the) downlying: on the verge of going into labour. Cf. lying-in n. In later use chiefly Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional (northern). ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] childbeda1200 bend1297 gesinea1400 lying-inc1440 labour1472 down-lying1561 groaning1579 groaning-time1579 partion1656 crying out1692 accouchement1730 inlying1734 confinement1774 accubation1853 1561 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 253 A wyff..toke a woman into her howse at the done-lyhyng, and the sam nyght she was delevered with chyld. 1600 Heroicall Aduentures Knight of Sea iii. 13 As the time almost expired of womans expectation, her wombe (impleat with an happy burden) beganne so extreamely to giue euidence of her downe-lying. 1686 N. Tate et al. tr. Heliodorus Æthiopian Hist. iv. 142 From a certain hour, I found my self with Child; all the time till my down-lying, there were Publick Feasts. 1763 G. A. Stevens Dramatic Hist. Master Edward i. ii. 6 I would not have Mrs. Llwhyddwhuydd vexed now she is so near her down-lying. 1793 Louisa Mathews I. xii. 110 We were walking round the Square, when a girl of eighteen, just at down-lying, solicited us to get her into the Lying-in Hospital. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. ix. 160 She expected her down-lying every day. 1883 Manch. Weekly Times 23 June (Suppl.) 1/1 None o' th' childer is owd enough to go to th' factory, and th' wife is near her downlying; they're fair clemming. 1927 G. R. Harvey Shepherds 9 The puir 'umman body jist at the doonlyin'. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 105/1 Down-lying, the confinement of a woman having a baby. < as lemmas |
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