litter (subs.) Copy link Outline I. The vehicleII. Of straw, etc.III. Of young • litter (subs.): I. The vehicle: lectīca: to ride in a l., lectica ferri, Cic. Verr. 5, 11, init.; portari, id. Ph. 2, 24, init. (de muliere); vehi, Juv. Dimin. lecticula: he was borne on a l. into the Senate-house, lecticula in curiam delatus est, Cic. Div. 1, 25, 55 (appy. = lectica) Liv. II. Of straw, etc.: strāmentum, esp. pl.: v. Gesn. Lex. Rust. s. v. Fig.: there was a l. of papers on the ground, *humi passim chartae confuse jacebant. III. Of young: fētus, ūs: to bring forth six kids at a l., sex haedos uno f. edere, Cic.: to have many young at a l., multiplices f. procreare, id. N. D. 2, 51, 128: (a sow) with a l. of 30, triginta capitum fetus enixa, Virg. Aen. 8, 44.
litter (v.) Copy link Outline I. To cover with litterII. To bring forth young • litter (v.): I. To cover with litter: substerno, 3: v. to strew. II. To bring forth young: părio, ēnītor: v. to bring forth: and comp. preced. art. (III.).
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.).