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lie in

verb

  1. lie in bed, confinement or bed rest, sometimes for child birth
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. 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.

  2. To stay in bed (longer than usual).

    I've got a day off tomorrow, so I might lie in till about 11.