LITTER


Meaning of LITTER in English

vi to produce a litter.

2. litter ·vi to be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

3. litter ·vt to supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

4. litter ·noun things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.

5. litter ·noun the young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. also fig.

6. litter ·vt to put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.

7. litter ·noun straw, hay, ·etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.

8. litter ·noun a bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, ·esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

9. litter ·noun disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.

10. litter ·vt 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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