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littered
(encz) | littered,rozházený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Littered
(gcide) | 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.
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Tell them how they litter their jades. --Bp.
Hackett.
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For his ease, well littered was the floor. --Dryden.
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2. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew
with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
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The room with volumes littered round. --Swift.
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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.
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We might conceive that dogs were created blind,
because we observe they were littered so with us.
--Sir T.
Browne.
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The son that she did litter here,
A freckled whelp hagborn. --Shak.
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littered
(gcide) | littered \lit"tered\ (l[i^]t"t[~e]rd), adj.
having articles scattered about in a disorderly fashion.
Syn: cluttered, messy, mussy, untidy.
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littered
(wn) | littered
adj 1: filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of
objects or rubbish; "the storm left the drivewaylittered
with sticks nd debris"; "his library was a cluttered room
with piles of books on every chair" [syn: cluttered,
littered] |
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unlittered
(encz) | unlittered, adj: |
Glittered
(gcide) | Glitter \Glit"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glittered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Glittering.] [OE. gliteren; akin to Sw. glittra,
Icel. glitra, glita, AS. glitenian, OS. gl[imac]tan, OHG.
gl[imac]zzan, G. gleissen, Goth. glitmunjan, and also to E.
glint, glisten, and prob. glance, gleam.]
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1. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and
broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering
sword.
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The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
--Dryden.
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2. To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive;
as, the glittering scenes of a court.
Syn: To gleam; to glisten; to shine; to sparkle; to glare.
See Gleam, Flash.
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Littered
(gcide) | 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.
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Tell them how they litter their jades. --Bp.
Hackett.
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For his ease, well littered was the floor. --Dryden.
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2. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew
with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
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The room with volumes littered round. --Swift.
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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.
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We might conceive that dogs were created blind,
because we observe they were littered so with us.
--Sir T.
Browne.
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The son that she did litter here,
A freckled whelp hagborn. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]littered \lit"tered\ (l[i^]t"t[~e]rd), adj.
having articles scattered about in a disorderly fashion.
Syn: cluttered, messy, mussy, untidy.
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unlittered
(wn) | unlittered
adj 1: having nothing extraneous; "an uncluttered room"; "the
unlittered shoulders of the road" [syn: uncluttered,
unlittered] |
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