Strew /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Strewed; p. p. strewn; p. pr. & vb. n. Strewing

1. To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.

   And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.

   On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about.

2. To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground.

   The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.

   Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?

3. To spread abroad; to disseminate.

   She may strew dangerous conjectures.