If everyone decided to litter, or drop trash on the ground, the world would be covered in garbage. Litter doesn't always have to be trashy though. When a cat has kittens, they are born as a litter.
A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
Noun
material used to provide a bed for animals
Noun
conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
Noun
the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
Noun
rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
Verb
give birth to a litter of animals
Verb
make a place messy by strewing garbage around
Verb
strew; "Cigar butts littered the ground"
n.
A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick
or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
n.
Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for
animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
n.
Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating
slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
n.
Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or
from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
n.
The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other
multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
v. t.
To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter,
as the floor of a stall.
v. t.
To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew
with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
v. t.
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.
v. i.
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make
one's bed in litter.
v. i.
To produce a litter.
Litter
There is a litter ready; lay him in 't.2.
To crouch in litter of your stable planks.
Take off the litter from your kernel beds.3.
Strephon, who found the room was void. Stole in, and took a strict survey Of all the litter as it lay.4.
A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter.
Reflect upon numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions that crawl about the world.
Litter
Tell them how they litter their jades.
For his ease, well littered was the floor.2.
The room with volumes littered round.3.
We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.
The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hagborn.
Litter
The inn Where he and his horse littered.2.
A desert . . . where the she-wolf still littered.
A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
Usage Examples
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
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