Till /(?)/
Till
n.
- A vetch; a tare. [Prov. Eng.]
Till
n.
- A drawer.
Phrases & Compounds
- Till alarm
- a device for sounding an alarm when a money drawer is opened or tampered with.
Till
n.
- 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.)
- A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
Till
prep.
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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.
Phrases & Compounds
- Till now
- to the present time.
- Till then
- to that time.
Till
conj.
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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.
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
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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.
the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
- To prepare; to get. [Obs.]
Till
v. i.
- To cultivate land.