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单词 to be lighter
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to be lighter (of)
5. In comparative in to be lighter (of): to be delivered (of a child). Cf. to be lighted of a child at light v.1 3b. Obsolete (Scottish and historical in later use).
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective] > giving birth > delivered of a child
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well-deliveredc1515
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travailed1843
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8593 On a night bath lighter war þai.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 572 (MED) Olympadas was of hire son liȝter.
c1560 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 61 The morrow after the said Charles wyf was lighter.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 138 Our quene is instantlie lychter of a bony barne.
a1783 Willie's Lady viii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1882) I. i. 86 Of her young bairn she'll neer be lighter.
1860 Family Herald 1 Sept. 287/2 In Hamilton the announcement was made..by a verbal message—‘Mrs. A.'s compliments to Mrs. B., and she's lichter of a laddie or lass bairn’ (as the case might be).
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