1lie in
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.
2lie in
To stay in bed.
I've got a day off tomorrow, so I might lie in till about 11.
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