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Entry 9 senses · 7 variants Webster, 1913

Till

/tĭl/ · IPA /tɪl/
01 n. A vetch; a tare.
  1. 1.
    A vetch; a tare.[Prov. Eng.]
02 n. A drawer.
  1. 1.
    A drawer.
Phrases & compounds
Till alarm — a device for sounding an alarm when a money drawer is opened or tampered with.
03 n. A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glacier…
  1. 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. 2.
    A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
04 prep. 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 Sc…
  1. 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.
Phrases & compounds
Till now — to the present time.
Till then — to that time.
05 conj. 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 follow…
  1. 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.
06 v. t. 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.
imp. & p. p. Tilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilling
  1. 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. 2.
    To prepare; to get.[Obs.]
07 v. i. To cultivate land.
  1. 1.
    To cultivate land.