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littered |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Litter \Lit"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Littered}; p. pr & vb n. {Littering}.] 1. To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall. Tell them how they litter their jades. --Bp. Hacke?. For his ease, well littered was the floor. --Dryden. 2. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as to litter a room The room with volumes littered round. --Swift. 3. To give birth to to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt. We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us --Sir T. Browne. The son that she did litter here A freckled whelp hagborn. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: littered adj : filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish; "the storm left the driveway littered with sticks and debris"; "his library was a cluttered room with piles of books on every chair" [syn: {cluttered}]
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