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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.

 

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