Word Meanings - STREWMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. Shak.
Related words: (words related to STREWMENT)
- ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - SCATTERLING
One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser. - SCATTER-BRAIN
A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention. - SCATTERGOOD
One who wastes; a spendthrift. - SCATTERING
Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes. - 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, - SCATTER-BRAINED
Giddy; thoughtless. - DECORATION
1. The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. 2. That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament. The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration. Motley. - DECORATION DAY
= Memorial Day. - 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. - ANYTHING
1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. - SCATTERINGLY
In a scattering manner; dispersedly. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - DEDECORATION
Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey. - TOSCATTER
To scatter in pieces; to divide. Chaucer.