0 to lie covering a surface, or to cover a surface with things that are far apart and in no particular arrangement:
The floors of these buildings are bestrewn with relics of helpless gods….
The glen was beginning to bestrew itself with want of light, instead of shadows; and bushy places thickened with the imperceptible growth of night.
Without any signs of dizziness or staggering, he walked between the boulders which bestrew the path.
The ragged prickly gorse and huge boulders, which bestrewed the pass about the foot of the cross, furnished unusual hiding places.
By and by came the unsparing train-boy on his rounds, bestrewing the passengers successively with papers, magazines, fine-cut tobacco, and packages of candy.
Then bestrew it with bread crumbs moistened in melted butter and set into the oven to brown.
Their apartment was bestrewn with jewelry, laces, silks, velvets, and every fanciful elegance of fashion; but they looked troubled.
She would have bestrewn the whole earth with the words of her son, and she looked into the doctor's face with eyes ready to beg.
