strow

English

Verb

strow (third-person singular simple present strows, present participle strowing, simple past strowed, past participle strown)

Obsolete form of strew.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1867, James R. Boyd (editor), The Paradise Lost, page 33,
  Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks / In Vallombrosa, […] .
- 1866, Matthew Arnold, The Study of Celtic Literature, Part IV: Conclusion, The Cornhill Magazine, Volume XIV, page 111,
  It was a manner much more turbid and strown with blemishes than the manner of Pindar, Dante, or Milton; […] .

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for strow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

rowts, trows, worst, worts

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /strow/

Verb

strow

second-person singular imperative of strowiś

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