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littering
[] 乱丢废, 乱废弃



Litter \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.

Tell them how they litter their jades. --Bp.
Hackett.

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.