'Strewing' definitions:

Definition of 'strewing'

noun

The act of scattering [syn: scatter, scattering, strewing]

From: GCIDE

Strewing \Strew"ing\, n.
1. The act of scattering or spreading. [1913 Webster]
2. Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Strew \Strew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strewed; p. p. strewn; p. pr. & vb. n. Strewing.] [OE. strewen, strawen, AS. strewian, stre['o]wian; akin to Ofries. strewa, OS. strewian, D. strooijen, G. streuen, OHG. strewen, Icel. str[=a], Sw. str["o], Dan. str["o]e, Goth. straujan, L. sternere, stratum, Gr. ?, ?, Skr. st?. [root]166. Cf. Stratum, Straw, Street.]
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. [1913 Webster]
And strewed his mangled limbs about the field. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about. --Beaconsfield. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
The snow which does the top of Pindus strew. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain? --Pope. [1913 Webster]
3. To spread abroad; to disseminate. [1913 Webster]
She may strew dangerous conjectures. --Shak. [1913 Webster]