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."
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