strewing's Usage Examples:

strong camphor-like odour and was historically used as an air freshener or strewing herb.

In the Middle Ages it was used as a strewing herb to repel insects such as moths, lice and ticks and spread a good smell.

The custom of strewing cut vegetation on the floors of churches began at an earlier date: the.

Thomas Tusser, a regular at the court of Henry VIII, lists twenty-one strewing herbs in his 1557 instructional poem, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie:.

Mary's Collegiate Church, an account being made by a local woman for the strewing of flowers along his route to the church.

In ritual and other formalities, veve is usually drawn on the floor by strewing a powder-like substance, commonly cornmeal, wheat flour, bark, red brick.

single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and mischievously strewing the aisle with banana peels.

failed (reasons uncertain) and re-entered atmosphere on 24 January 1978, strewing radioactive debris across northern Canada Kosmos 1001 - first uncrewed.

activities in the epics like gazing at human prowess with astonishment, strewing flowers watching a combat, rejoicing with music and laughter, crowned with.

The Devas were to praise him with strewing flowers.

also survive fragments of monolithic columns and several broken capitals, strewing the soil in several places, and especially near the Sheikh's house.

Rex Rossmore (Moore) disgust at the hairpin-strewing, straggly locks of his young bride Muriel (Bennett) and her concentration.

Various Hittite and Assyrian texts speak of ceremonially strewing salt, minerals, or plants (weeds, "cress", or kudimmu, which are associated.

Put apples, in thin slices, into the dish, in layers, till full, strewing sugar betweeij, and bits of butter.

A considerable portion of the cliff had fallen down, strewing the whole of the ground between it and the sea with its ruins ; huge masses.

the church (it still has a thatched roof today), and to cut rushes for strewing the floors.

Synonyms:

spreading; scatter; scattering; spread;

Antonyms:

cross; fold; centralization; stay in place; gather;