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Litter

noun

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. Synonyms: bedding, bedding material.

verb

(past & past part. littered; pres. part. littering)

1.

Strew.

2.

Make a place messy by strewing garbage around.

3.

Give birth to a litter of animals.

Lit

adjective

1.

Provided with artificial light. Synonyms: illuminated, lighted, well-lighted. "Looked up at the lighted windows" , "A brightly lit room" , "A well-lighted stairwell"

2.

Set afire or burning. Synonym: lighted. "A lighted cigarette" , "A lit firecracker" Antonym: unlighted.

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"Litter" Quotes from Famous Books

... would you set, (1) a leg, (2) an arm, (3) a broken finger? If a man is run over by a Hansom, what should you do? Describe an excellent substitute for a litter, when you ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 25, 1891 • Various

... fiercely. "If you don't stop its squalling, I will. I hate children. And, if I'd my own way, I'd drown 'em all like a litter o' puppies." ...

— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth

... and thus out of our history. But in the evening Gui Camoys came into Bristol under a flag of truce, and behind him heaved a litter wherein lay Osmund ...

— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell

... the potatoes and on top of them. When you have thus lodged your potatoes, then fill up the rest of the hole with the earth first thrown out, and, with some stuff, raise upon the hole a large heap of earth in the form of a large haycock, which you may cover with some litter or heath. By the covering of earth of five or six feet deep, your potatoes will be secured against the severest frosts, which are not known to enter over two feet into the ground. The same pit will serve you year after year, and when ...

— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke

... decorations were completed, the litter of leaves gathered up, and the carpet covered with a tightly drawn linen cloth for the feet ...

— Her Mother's Secret • Emma D. E. N. Southworth

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