childing /ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪŋ/ adjective3 •(no longer used) Able to bear children; fertile; also, pregnant, or in the process of childbirth, or having just given birth to a child.With fire and sword the country round / Was wasted far and wide, / And many a childing mother then, / And new-born baby died; / But things like that, you know, must be / At every famous victory. — 1798 •(figurative, no longer used) Fruitful; productive.The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries; and the mazed worlde, / By their increase, now knowes not which is which; […] — 1595 •(no longer used) Of a flowering plant: producing younger florets around an older flower.
