Thesaurus: litter

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1. n. A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
2. n. Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
3. n. Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
4. n. Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
5. n. The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
6. v. t. To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
7. v. t. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
8. v. t. 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.
9. v. i. To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
10. v. i. To produce a litter.
11. n. the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
12. n. rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)