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strewing
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Strewing
(gcide) | Strewing \Strew"ing\, n.
1. The act of scattering or spreading.
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2. Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in
the plural. --Shak.
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Strewing
(gcide) | Strew \Strew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strewed; p. p. strewn; p.
pr. & vb. n. Strewing.] [OE. strewen, strawen, AS.
strewian, stre['o]wian; akin to Ofries. strewa, OS. strewian,
D. strooijen, G. streuen, OHG. strewen, Icel. str[=a], Sw.
str["o], Dan. str["o]e, Goth. straujan, L. sternere, stratum,
Gr. ?, ?, Skr. st?. [root]166. Cf. Stratum, Straw,
Street.]
1. To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw
loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable
into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to
strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a
grave.
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And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.
--Dryden.
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On a principal table a desk was open and many papers
[were] strewn about. --Beaconsfield.
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2. To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over
or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered;
as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed
the ground.
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The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
--Spenser.
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Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
--Pope.
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3. To spread abroad; to disseminate.
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She may strew dangerous conjectures. --Shak.
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strewing
(wn) | strewing
n 1: the act of scattering [syn: scatter, scattering,
strewing] |
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strewing material
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Bestrewing
(gcide) | Bestrew \Be*strew"\, v. t. [imp. Bestrewed; p. p. Bestrewed,
Bestrown (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bestrewing.]
To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also
bestrow.] --Milton.
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Strewing
(gcide) | Strewing \Strew"ing\, n.
1. The act of scattering or spreading.
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2. Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in
the plural. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Strew \Strew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strewed; p. p. strewn; p.
pr. & vb. n. Strewing.] [OE. strewen, strawen, AS.
strewian, stre['o]wian; akin to Ofries. strewa, OS. strewian,
D. strooijen, G. streuen, OHG. strewen, Icel. str[=a], Sw.
str["o], Dan. str["o]e, Goth. straujan, L. sternere, stratum,
Gr. ?, ?, Skr. st?. [root]166. Cf. Stratum, Straw,
Street.]
1. To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw
loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable
into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to
strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a
grave.
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And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.
--Dryden.
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On a principal table a desk was open and many papers
[were] strewn about. --Beaconsfield.
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2. To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over
or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered;
as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed
the ground.
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The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
--Spenser.
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Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
--Pope.
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3. To spread abroad; to disseminate.
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She may strew dangerous conjectures. --Shak.
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