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Webster 1913 Edition

Till

Till

,
Noun.
[Abbrev. from
lentil
.]
A vetch; a tare.
[Prov. Eng.]

Till

,
Noun.
[Properly, a drawer, from OE.
tillen
to draw. See
Tiller
the lever of a rudder.]
A drawer.
Specifically:
(a)
A tray or drawer in a chest.
(b)
A money drawer in a shop or store.
Till alarm
,
a device for sounding an alarm when a money drawer is opened or tampered with.

Till

,
Noun.
1.
(Geol.)
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

,
p
rep.
[OE.
til
, Icel.
til
; akin to Dan.
til
, Sw.
till
, OFries.
til
, also to AS.
til
good, excellent, G.
ziel
end, limit, object, OHG.
zil
, Goth.
tils
, ga
tils
, fit, convenient, and E.
till
to cultivate. See
Till
,
Verb.
T.
]
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

,
c
onj.
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

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tilled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tilling
.]
[OE.
tilen
,
tilien
, AS.
tilian
,
teolian
, to aim, strive for, till; akin to OS.
tilian
to get, D.
telen
to propagate, G.
zielen
to aim,
ziel
an end, object, and perhaps also to E.
tide
,
time
, from the idea of something fixed or definite. Cf.
Teal
,
Till
,
p
rep.
.]
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

,
Verb.
I.
To cultivate land.
Piers Plowman.

Webster 1828 Edition

Till

TILL

,
Noun.
A vetch; a tare. [Local.]

TILL

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