To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
To wander as an idle vagrant.
A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
The young brought forth at one time, by a cat, dog, sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
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.
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one’s bed in litter.
To produce a litter.
