The final stages of pregnancy; accouchement. / A period of postpartum confinement, typically a month or longer, formerly common in Europe and still practiced in some parts of the world.

of, or relating to childbirth or postpartum confinement

(astronomy, countable) Alternative spelling of ly; light-year / (uncountable) Initialism of lethal yellowing.

Used to form adverbs from adjectives and nouns.

Used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "behaving like, or having a nature typical of what is denoted by the noun".

plural of ly

a river in France and Belgium, and a left tributary of the Scheldt at Gent

present participle of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”).

Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious

An act of telling a lie or falsehood.