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.

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

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

present participle of lie (“to intentionally give false information”).

simple past tense and past participle of lye

An act of telling a lie or falsehood.