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a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it. There is a litter ready; lay him in 't. Shak.

One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus. " Befriended by one kind-hearted littérateur after another." C. Kingsley.

Covered or encumbered with litter; consisting of or constituting litter.

Clittering; in a glitter.

To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards. [R.] Lowell.

A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.

A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees. McElrath.

with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword. The field yet glitters with the pomp of war. Dryden.

Glittering. [Obs.] Spenser.

In a glittering manner.

ssively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.

A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton.

A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.

One who, or that which, slits.

One who, or that which, splits.

[Also spelt bawdrick.] A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side. Pope.

A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

A large mass or hill, as of ice. Glittering bergs of ice. Tennyson .

To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.

[Local, U. S.] Bog bean. See Buck bean. -- Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- Bog earth (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decompo…