Word Meanings - STREWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of scattering or spreading. 2. Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural. Shak.

Related words: (words related to STREWING)

• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• STREWN
  p. p. of Strew.
• PLURAL
  Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word. Plural faith, which is too much by one. Shak. Plural number , the number which designates more than one. See Number, n., 8.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• PLURALIST
  A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice. Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were pluralists. Macaulay.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• 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.
• PLURALIZER
  A pluralist.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• PLURALIZE
  1. To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form. 2. To multiply; to make manifold.
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• PLURALITY
  See PLURALITY (more info) 1. The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• STREWMENT
  Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. Shak.
• PLURALIZATION
  The act of pluralizing. H. Spencer.
• 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
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.