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Dictionary Results for strewing:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
strewing
    n 1: the act of scattering [syn: scatter, scattering,
         strewing]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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