Reflect upon that numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions
that crawl about the world.
South.
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.
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Lit"ter (lt"tr), v. i. 1. To be supplied with litter as bedding; to
sleep or make one's bed in litter. [R.]
The inn Where he and his horse littered.
Habington.