Litter

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Carelessly discarded refuse, such as wastepaper.
  • noun. A disorderly accumulation of objects; a pile.
  • noun. The group of offspring produced at one birth by a mammal.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Material, such as straw, used as bedding for animals.
  • noun. An absorbent material, such as granulated clay, for covering the floor of an animal's cage or excretory box.
  • noun. An enclosed or curtained couch mounted on shafts and used to carry a single passenger.
  • noun. A flat supporting framework, such as a piece of canvas stretched between parallel shafts, for carrying a disabled or dead person; a stretcher.
  • noun. Fallen leaves and other decaying organic matter that make up the top layer of a forest floor.
  • intransitive verb. To give birth to (a litter).
  • intransitive verb. To make untidy by discarding rubbish carelessly.
  • intransitive verb. To scatter about.
  • intransitive verb. To be scattered about (an area).
  • intransitive verb. To include certain items such as expressions throughout (a speech or piece of writing, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To supply (animals) with litter for bedding or floor covering.
  • intransitive verb. To give birth to a litter.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A vehicle consisting of a bed or couch suspended between shafts, and borne by men or horses.
  • noun. A form of hurdle-bed on which a sick or wounded person is conveyed from one point to another, as to a hospital in a city, or to a field-hospital on a battle-field.
  • noun. A birth or bringing forth of more than one young animal at a time, as of pigs, kittens, rabbits, puppies, etc.
  • noun. A number of young animals brought forth at a birth: used with reference to mammals which regularly give birth to more than one young at once, as the sow, bitch, eat, rabbit, etc., and only slightingly of human beings.
  • noun. Loose straw, hay, or the like, spread on a floor or the ground as bedding for horses, cows, or other animals.
  • noun. Waste matter, as shreds, fragments, or the like, scattered about, as on a floor; scattered rubbish; things strewn about in a careless or slovenly manner; clutter.
  • noun. A condition of disorder or confusion: as, the room is in a litter.
  • noun. In forestry, the rubbish of dead leaves and twigs scattered upon the floor of the forest.
  • To carry in a litter.
  • To scatter straw, hay, or other similar substance on or over for bedding.
  • To spread a bed for; supply with litter: usually with down.
  • To make litter of; use for litter.
  • To bring forth; give birth to: said of mammals which usually produce a number at a birth, as the sow, cat, rabbit, bitch, etc., or slightingly of human beings.
  • To scatter things over or about in a careless or slovenly manner.
  • To be supplied with a bed or litter for bedding; sleep in litter: as, to litter in the straw.
  • To bring forth a litter of young animals.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
  • intransitive verb. To produce a litter.
  • noun. A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
  • noun. Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
  • noun. Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
  • noun. Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for.
  • noun. The young brought forth at one time, by a cat, dog, sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
  • transitive verb. To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
  • transitive verb. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
  • noun. The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
  • noun. Material used as bedding for animals.
  • noun. Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
  • noun. Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
  • noun. Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
  • verb. To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
  • Word Usage
    "We're knee deep in litter from the plastering of the walls."
    cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    animal group  be  bear  birth  deliver  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ritter  Sitter  aglitter  bitter  chitter  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bag  basket  bit  blanket  bundle  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form