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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Litter \Lit"ter\, 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.
2. To produce a litter.
A desert . . . where the she-wolf still littered.
--Macaulay.
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.
Litter \Lit"ter\, n. [F. liti[`e]re, LL. lectaria, fr. L. lectus
couch, bed. See {Lie} to be prostrated, and cf. {Coverlet}.]
1. A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick
or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
There is a litter ready; lay him in 't. --Shak.
2. Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for
animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
To crouch in litter of your stable planks. --Shak.
Take off the litter from your kernel beds. --Evelyn.
3. Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating
slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
Strephon, who found the room was void. Stole in, and
took a strict survey Of all the litter as it lay.
--Swift.
4. Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish,
or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a
state of litter.
5. The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other
multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to
take care of her litter. --D. Estrange.
Reflect upon numerous litter of strange, senseless
opinions that crawl about the world. --South.
资料来源 : WordNet®
litter
n 1: the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
2: rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in
public places)
3: conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles
by bearers
4: material used to provide a bed for animals [syn: {bedding
material}, {bedding}]
v 1: strew; "Cigar butts littered the ground"
2: make a place messy by strewing garbage around
3: give birth to a litter of animals