STREW, v.t. [This verb is written straw, strew, or strow; straw is nearly obsolete, and strow is obsolescent. Strew is generally used.]
1. To scatter; to spread by scattering; always applied to dry substances separable into parts or particles; as, to strew See d in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.
2. To spread by being scattered over.
The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
Is thine alone the See d that strews the plain?
3. To scatter loosely.
And strewd his mangled limbs about the field.
