LITTER Copy link • LITTER 1. s. A kind of sedan bed, lectica; sella gestatoria (in the lectica the person was recumbent, in the sella gestatoria more in a sitting posture). Straw laid under animals for a bed, etc., stramentum (stramen, or substramen, poetical). Straw for a covering, stramentum: ☞ storea or storia, is a covering of plaited straw, a mat. Young produced at a birth, fetus, fetura, suboles, progenies. Things in confusion, turbae, tricae: to make a litter, omnia miscere, turbare, or miscere ac turbare. 2. v. To spread straw as a bed for cattle, (stramentum) pecori substernere (Plin.). To cover with things negligently, miscere ac turbare. (Of animals) to bring forth young, fetus procreare; fetum fundere, edere (Cic.).