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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Strewing \Strew"ing\, n.
     1. The act of scattering or spreading.
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     2. Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in
        the plural. --Shak.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Strew \Strew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Strewed}; p. p. {strewn}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Strewing}.] [OE. strewen, strawen, AS.
     strewian, stre['o]wian; akin to Ofries. strewa, OS. strewian,
     D. strooijen, G. streuen, OHG. strewen, Icel. str[=a], Sw.
     str["o], Dan. str["o]e, Goth. straujan, L. sternere, stratum,
     Gr. ?, ?, Skr. st?. [root]166. Cf. {Stratum}, {Straw},
     {Street}.]
     1. To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw
        loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable
        into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to
        strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a
        grave.
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              And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              On a principal table a desk was open and many papers
              [were] strewn about.                  --Beaconsfield.
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     2. To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over
        or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered;
        as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed
        the ground.
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              The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
                                                    --Spenser.
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              Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
                                                    --Pope.
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     3. To spread abroad; to disseminate.
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              She may strew dangerous conjectures.  --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  strewing
       n : the act of scattering [syn: {scatter}, {scattering}]

















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