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.
Source : WordNet®
littered
adj : filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of
objects or rubbish; "the storm left the driveway
littered with sticks and debris"; "his library was a
cluttered room with piles of books on every chair"
[syn: {cluttered}]