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litter box

Variant of litter

noun

  1. a framework having long horizontal shafts near the bottom and enclosing a couch on which a person can be carried
  2. a stretcher for carrying the sick or wounded
  3. straw, hay, leaves, etc. used as bedding for animals, as a protective covering for plants, etc.
  4. a kind of granular clay used in an indoor receptacle () to absorb the waste of domestic cats
  5. the young borne at one time by a dog, cat, or other animal which normally bears several young at a delivery
  6. things lying about in disorder, esp., bits of rubbish scattered about
  7. untidiness; disorder
  8. Forestry the surface layer of the forest floor, in which the leaves are slightly decomposed

transitive verb

  1. to supply with a bed, covering, etc. of straw, hay, or the like
  2. to bring forth (a number of young) at one time: said of certain animals
  3. to make messy with things scattered about
  4. to scatter about carelessly

intransitive verb

to bear a litter of young

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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