Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Litter \Lit"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Littered}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Littering}.]
   1. To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as
      the floor of a stall.

            Tell them how they litter their jades. --Bp. Hacke?.

            For his ease, well littered was the floor. --Dryden.

   2. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew
      with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.

            The room with volumes littered round. --Swift.

   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.

            We might conceive that dogs were created blind,
            because we observe they were littered so with us.
                                                  --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.

            The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp
            hagborn.                              --Shak.