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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. 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.

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

To strew or scatter over.

A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [Obs.]

To strew or sprinkle with ashes. Howell.

Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.

Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans.

To cover sparsely by scattering (something); to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.

Sprinkled over; strewed. His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.

p. p. of Bestrew.

stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.

efore the bier of a maiden. [Obs.] Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, Her maaiden strewments. Shak.

nation by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.

things together. Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed. Matt. xxv. 26.

scented grass (Hierochloa borealis and H. alpina). In the north of Europe it was formerly strewed before church doors on saints' days; whence the name. It is common in the northern and western parts of the United States. Called also vanilla, or Seneca, grass. -- Holy Innocents' day, Childermas day. -- Holy Land, Pale…

; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.

Crowned, or decked, with laurel. Chaucer. To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. Milton. Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. Pope. Poet laureate. (b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being presented with a wreath…