Till /(?)/

Till

n.
  1. A vetch; a tare. [Prov. Eng.]

Till

n.
  1. A drawer.

Phrases & Compounds

Till alarm
a device for sounding an alarm when a money drawer is opened or tampered with.

Till

n.
  1. A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner. (Geol.)
  2. A kind of coarse, obdurate land.

Till

prep.
  1. To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.
    He . . . came till an house.
    Women, up till this Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo.
    Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his writings -- all through them till the very end.
    — Prof. Wilson.

Phrases & Compounds

Till now
to the present time.
Till then
to that time.

Till

conj.
  1. As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until.
    And said unto them, Occupy till I come.
    — Luke xix. 13.
    Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God.
    There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived.

Till

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Tilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilling

  1. To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm.
    No field nolde [would not] tilye.
    — P. Plowman.
    the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
    — Gen. iii. 23.
  2. To prepare; to get. [Obs.]

Till

v. i.
  1. To cultivate land.