Tell them how they litter their jades. --Bp. Hacke?.
For his ease, well littered was the floor. --Dryden.
2. To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew
with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
The room with volumes littered round. --Swift.
3. 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.
We might conceive that dogs were created blind,
because we observe they were littered so with us.
--Sir T.
Browne.
The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp
hagborn. --Shak.