strow
English
Verb
strow (third-person singular simple present strows, present participle strowing, simple past strowed, past participle strown)
- Obsolete form of strew.
- 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- 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; […] .
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Anagrams
- Trows, rowts, trows, worst, worts
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /strow/
Verb
strow
- second-person singular imperative of strowiś