Oh, how they lie ~ playing with a word

I found these fun words on page 13 of The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (1951):

"The situation . . . :

mother lying-in with her eleventh upstairs,

father laid-out after his ninth downstairs,

eldest son lying to the Government in the cow-shed,

eldest daughter lying with her lover in the hay-loft,

everyone else lying low in the barn."

It's like the author is playing a game of "How many ways can I use the word lying?"  Here are the definitions, in order:

ly·ing-in /ˌlīiNGˈin / noun (archaic) seclusion before and after childbirth; confinement.

laid out /verb = phrase that means sprawled.

lying to = to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive.

lying with / (archaic) = having sexual intercourse with.

lying low = keep out of sight; avoid detection or attention.