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litter 音标拼音: [l'ɪtɚ] n. 垃圾,杂乱,轿,担架
vt. 乱丢,铺草,弄乱
vi. 产仔,乱丢垃圾 垃圾,杂乱,轿,担架乱丢,铺草,弄乱产仔,乱丢垃圾 litter* 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 [ synonym: { bedding material}, { bedding}, { litter}] v 1: strew; " Cigar butts littered the ground" 2: make a place messy by strewing garbage around 3: give birth to a litter of animalsLitter \ Lit" ter\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Littered} ( l[ i^] t" t[~ e] rd); p. pr. & vb. n. { Littering}.] 1. To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall. [ 1913 Webster] Tell them how they litter their jades. -- Bp. Hackett. [ 1913 Webster] For his ease, well littered was the floor. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room. [ 1913 Webster] The room with volumes littered round. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us. -- Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster] The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hagborn. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Litter \ Lit" ter\ ( l[ i^] t" t[~ e] r), 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. [ 1913 Webster] There is a litter ready; lay him in ' t. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants. [ 1913 Webster] To crouch in litter of your stable planks. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Take off the litter from your kernel beds. -- Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish. [ 1913 Webster] Strephon, who found the room was void. Stole in, and took a strict survey Of all the litter as it lay. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter. [ 1913 Webster] 5. The young brought forth at one time, by a cat, dog, sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig. [ 1913 Webster] A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter. -- D. Estrange. [ 1913 Webster] Reflect upon that numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions that crawl about the world. -- South. [ 1913 Webster]
Litter \ Lit" ter\ ( l[ i^] t" t[~ e] r), v. i. 1. To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one' s bed in litter. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] The inn Where he and his horse littered. -- Habington. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To produce a litter. [ 1913 Webster] A desert . . . where the she- wolf still littered. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 153 Moby Thesaurus words for " litter": air mattress, arsy- varsiness, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, bed, bed down, bedding, bedstead, bier, bolster, brancard, break, bridle, brood, brush, bunk, cacolet, calve, camel litter, cast, clamjamfry, clutch, clutter, collateral, couch, curry, currycomb, cushion, dandy, debris, derange, disarrange, disarray, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, dolly, doolie, doss, drench, drop, dust, farrago, farrow, fawn, feed, foal, fodder, fragments, fry, garbage, gentle, get, give birth, gocart, groom, gurney, handbarrow, handle, harness, hash, hatch, have, have a baby, have young, helter- skelter, higgledy- piggledy, hitch, hodgepodge, hysteron proteron, innerspring mattress, issue, jampan, jumble, jungle, junk, kelter, kip, kitten, labor, lamb, lie in, lumber, manage, mat, mattress, mess, mess up, milk, misarrange, mishmash, muddle, muss, muss up, nest, odds and ends, offal, offspring, pad, pallet, pillow, pup, raff, refuse, riffraff, rub down, rubbish, rubble, ruffle, rug, rummage, rumple, saddle, scatter, scramble, scrap, sedan, sedan chair, shoddy, sleeping bag, sofa, spat, spawn, springs, stretcher, strew, tame, tend, the hay, the sack, throw, topsy- turviness, topsy- turvydom, tousle, train, trash, travail, truck, tumble, turmoil, underbed, underbedding, unholy mess, waste, water, welter, whelp, yean, yoke, young
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