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. Hackett.
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.
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]