strow

English

Verb

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

1. Obsolete form of strew.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks / In Vallombrosa, […] .

   • 1845, William Wilberforce, Poems, page 129:

     How still the air within this forest brown; / So still, you hear the snow fall through the trees, / And on the yellow leaves beneath them strown; / And thick it falls, unwavered by the breeze, […]

   • 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; […] .

Anagrams

• Worst, worts, worst, rowts, Trows, trows

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strow/

Verb

strow

1. second-person singular imperative of strowiś