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conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers

the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal

rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)

give birth to a litter of animals

make a place messy by strewing garbage around

conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers

the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal

rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)

give birth to a litter of animals

make a place messy by strewing garbage around

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.

Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.

Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.

The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.

To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.

To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

To produce a litter.

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.

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.

Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.

Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.

The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.

To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.

To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

To produce a litter.

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.

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.

An arrangement for removing the sick.

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.

To cover or supply with litter: to scatter carelessly about: to give birth to (said of small animals).

To produce a litter or brood.

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.

To scatter carelessly about; bring forth, as pigs, &c.

To bring forth, as a litter of young.

To scatter straw, etc. for bedding; disorder; confuse.

A number of young animals at a birth.

Straw, hay, etc., as bedding for animals.

A state of disorder.

A stretcher.

A couch for transporting the sick or wounded.

An appliance for transporting sick and wounded persons for short distances.

The whole number of young brought forth at a time. [Old Fr., Fr., Span., Lat.]

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.