Strew
Strew , transitive verb
[Old English strewen, strawen, Anglo-Saxon strewian, streówian; akin to Ofries. strewa, Old Saxon strewian, Dutch strooijen, German streuen, Old High German strewen, Icelandic strā, Swedish stro, Danish stroe, Gothic straujan, Latin sternere, stratum, Greek {not transcribed}, {not transcribed}, Sanskrit st{not transcribed}. r166. Compare 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.
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.