(Hebrews tsab, as being lightly and gently borne), a sedan or palanquin for the conveyance of persons of rank (Isaiah 66:20). In Numbers 7:3, the words "covered wagons" are more literally "carts of the litter kind." There they denote large and commodious vehicles drawn by oxen, and fitted for transporting the furniture of the temple.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

2. (n.) Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.

3. (n.) Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.

4. (n.) Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.

5. (n.) The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.

6. (v. t.) To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

7. (v. t.) To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.

8. (v. t.) To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.

9. (v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

10. (v. i.) To produce a litter.