LITTER

I. noun see: lie Date: 14th century 1. a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger, a device (as a stretcher) for carrying a sick or injured person, 2. a. material used as bedding for animals, material used to absorb the urine and feces of animals, the uppermost slightly decayed layer of organic matter on the forest floor, the offspring at one birth of a multiparous animal , 4. trash, wastepaper, or garbage lying scattered about , an untidy accumulation of objects , ~y adjective II. verb Date: 14th century transitive verb bed 1a, to give birth to a ~ of (young), 3. to strew with scattered articles, to scatter about in disorder, to lie about in disorder , to mark with objects scattered at random , intransitive verb to give birth to a ~, to strew ~