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Word Meanings - OVERSTREW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strew or scatter over.

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  • STREWN
    p. p. of Strew.
  • SCATTERLING
    One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
  • STREWING
    1. The act of scattering or spreading. 2. Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural. Shak.
  • SCATTER-BRAIN
    A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
  • SCATTERGOOD
    One who wastes; a spendthrift.
  • STREWMENT
    Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. Shak.
  • SCATTERING
    Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
  • SCATTER
    Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
  • SCATTER-BRAINED
    Giddy; thoughtless.
  • STREW
    to Ofries. strewa, OS. strewian, D. strooijen, G. streuen, OHG. strewen, Icel. stra, Sw. strö, Dan. ströe, Goth. straujan, L. 1. To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable
  • SCATTERED
    Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. -- Scat"tered*ly, adv. -- Scat"tered*ness, n. (more info) 1. Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
  • SCATTERINGLY
    In a scattering manner; dispersedly.
  • BESCATTER
    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
  • BESTREW
    To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. Milton.
  • OVERSTREW
    To strew or scatter over.
  • TOSCATTER
    To scatter in pieces; to divide. Chaucer.

 

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