Littering

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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.
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              Tell them how they litter their jades. --Bp.
                                                    Hackett.
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              For his ease, well littered was the floor. --Dryden.
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     2. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew
        with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
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              The room with volumes littered round. --Swift.
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     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.
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              We might conceive that dogs were created blind,
              because we observe they were littered so with us.
                                                    --Sir T.
                                                    Browne.
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              The son that she did litter here,
              A freckled whelp hagborn.             --Shak.
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