ppl. a. [f. LITTER v. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb.
1. Employed or strewn as litter; also, scattered in disorder.
1754. Dodsley, Public Virtue, Agriculture, II. 231. Strew around Old leaves or litter’d straw, to screen from heat The tender infants.
1863. A. B. Grosart, Small Sins, 67. I remember how the littered concealing straw was raised.
1863. Ld. Lytton, Ring Amasis, II. 137. See these littered shards upon the sordid earth!
2. Covered or strewn with litter; clogged up with litter.
1870. Evening Standard, 29 Oct., 5/3. From one of the upper balconies of this littered chateau we looked down upon Paris, lying under a cloud.
1895. Educat. Rev., Sept., 166. The mind is left in a littered-up condition.
1900. G. W. Hartley, in Blackw. Mag., Aug., 220/1. ‘I have’—he looked at the littered table—‘a great many letters which I must write to-day.’
3. nonce-use. That has produced a litter.
1894. Gladstone, Horace, Odes, III. xxvii. 1. With littered fox, and lapwing’s call.
