LITTER
\lˈɪtə], \lˈɪtə], \l_ˈɪ_t_ə]\
Definitions of LITTER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
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the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
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rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
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give birth to a litter of animals
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make a place messy by strewing garbage around
By Princeton University
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conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
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the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
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rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
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give birth to a litter of animals
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make a place messy by strewing garbage around
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
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Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
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Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
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Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
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The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
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To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
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To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
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To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
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To produce a litter.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
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Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
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Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
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Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
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The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
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To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
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To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
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To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
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To produce a litter.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Straw, hay, etc., used for horses bedding; a framework with ed, for carrying a person who is lying down; te of confusion or untidiness; number of ing produced at one birth, as pigs, etc.; to supply with straw, etc., for bedding; er with straw; scatter about carelessly; to bring forth young.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An arrangement for removing the sick.
By William R. Warner
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A heap of straw, etc., for animals to lie upon: materials for a bed: any scattered collection of objects, esp. of little value: a vehicle containing a bed for carrying about: a brood of small quadrupeds.
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To cover or supply with litter: to scatter carelessly about: to give birth to (said of small animals).
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To produce a litter or brood.
By Daniel Lyons
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A confused collection of articles; heap of straw, &c.; things scattered about, vehicle with a bed in it, hand-barrow for carrying the sick, &c., brood of certain quadrupeds.
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To scatter carelessly about; bring forth, as pigs, &c.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To bring forth, as a litter of young.
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To scatter straw, etc. for bedding; disorder; confuse.
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A number of young animals at a birth.
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Straw, hay, etc., as bedding for animals.
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A state of disorder.
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A stretcher.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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An appliance for transporting sick and wounded persons for short distances.
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The whole number of young brought forth at a time. [Old Fr., Fr., Span., Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [French] A bed so famished with supports that it may be easily carried about with a person in it a coarse bed of straw or hay for animals to rest upon; also, a covering of straw for plants;— a confused mass of objects little valued; rubbish;— a condition of disorder or confusion;— the number of pigs or other small animals born at once.
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