Word Meanings - BESTREW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. Milton.

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• STREWN
  p. p. of Strew.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• STREWING
  1. The act of scattering or spreading. 2. Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural. Shak.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• BESPRINKLER
  One who, or that which, besprinkles.
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• STREWMENT
  Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. Shak.
• BESPRINKLE
  To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• SCATTER
  Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• SCATTER-BRAINED
  Giddy; thoughtless.
• STREW
  to Ofries. strewa, OS. strewian, D. strooijen, G. streuen, OHG. strewen, Icel. stra, Sw. strö, Dan. ströe, Goth. straujan, L. 1. To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable
• SCATTERED
  Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. -- Scat"tered*ly, adv. -- Scat"tered*ness, n. (more info) 1. Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
• SCATTERINGLY
  In a scattering manner; dispersedly.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• BESTREW
  To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. Milton.
• OVERSTREW
  To strew or scatter over.
• TOSCATTER
  To scatter in pieces; to divide. Chaucer.