downlying

noun — 2 senses

downlying

noun

Etymology From down + lying.

1

The time of retiring to rest.

  • […]him in his house, down-lying and up-rising1641, George Cavendish, Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe:
2

Scotland The travail in childbirth.

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