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.