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Till

Till (till)
n.(?)
Till
[Abbrev. from lentil.]
  1. A vetch; a tare.
    [Prov. Eng.]

Till

Till (till)
n.
Till
  1. A drawer.
    Specifically: (a)

Till

Till (till)
n.
Till
  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.
  2. A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
    Loudon.

Till

Till (till)
prep.
Till
  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. Chaucer.

    Women, up till this
    Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo.
    Tennyson.

    Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his writings -- all through them till the very end. Prof. Wilson.

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


Till

Till (till)
conj.(?)
Till
  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. Jer. Taylor.

    There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived. Macaulay.

    * This use may be explained by supposing an ellipsis of when, or the time when, the proper conjunction or conjunctive adverb begin when.


Till

Till (till)
v. t.
Till
  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.] W. Browne.

Till

Till (till)
v. i.
Till
  1. To cultivate land.
    Piers Plowman.













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