3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Litter \Lit"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Littered} (l[i^]t"t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Littering}.] 1. To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall. [1913 Webster] Tell them how they litter their jades. --Bp. Hackett. [1913 Webster] For his ease, well littered was the floor. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room. [1913 Webster] The room with volumes littered round. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hagborn. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: littered \lit"tered\ (l[i^]t"t[~e]rd), adj. having articles scattered about in a disorderly fashion. Syn: cluttered, messy, mussy, untidy. [WordNet 1.5] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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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