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lie in en · VERB
Meanings
(archaic) To be brought to bed in childbirth.
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, published 1973, page 467:
(UK) To stay in bed (longer than usual).
I've got a day off tomorrow, so I might lie in till about 11.