downlying

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The time of retiring to rest; time of repose.
2. n. The time at which a woman is to give birth to a child; lying-in: as, she's at the down-lying.
3. About to lie down or to be in travail of childbirth.

Wiktionary

1. n. The time of retiring to rest.
2. n. Scotland The travail in childbirth.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The time of retiring to rest; time of repose.