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osely 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. And strewed his mangled limbs about the field. Dryden. On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about. Beaconsfield.…

Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural. Shak.

Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. [Obs.] Shak.

p. p. of Strew.

e leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.

To reward to an excessive degree. Bacon.

Increase; addition; surplus. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

To survey; to make a survey of. [Obs.] "To surview his ground." Spenser.

Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.

In a way of a tale or story.

res, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.

The pewit. [Prov. Eng.]

A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke.

To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.

A tribe of American Indians including many of the Pueblos of New Mexico and adjacent regions.

Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship. [Obs. or Local] Mir. for Mag.

A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke. Chaucer.

The lapwing; -- called also teewheep. [Prov. Eng.]

To beat; to break, as flax or hemp. [Obs.] Mortimer.

At that time; at the same time. [Obs.] Laud.