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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TILL, n. A vetch; a tare. [Local.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together [syn: till, boulder clay]
2: a treasury for government funds [syn: public treasury, trough, till]
3: a strongbox for holding cash [syn: cashbox, money box, till] v
1: work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation; "till the soil"

Merriam Webster's

I. preposition Etymology: Middle English, from Old English til; akin to Old Norse til to, till, Old English til good Date: before 12th century 1. chiefly Scottish to 2. (or 'til) (also til) until II. conjunction or 'til; also til Date: 12th century until III. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English tilien, tillen, from Old English tilian; akin to Old English til good, suitable, Old High German zil goal Date: 12th century to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops ; cultivate • tillable adjective IV. noun Etymology: Middle English tille locker, chest Date: 15th century 1. a. a box, drawer, or tray in a receptacle (as a cabinet or chest) used especially for valuables b. a money drawer in a store or bank; also cash register 2. a. the money contained in a till b. a supply of especially ready money V. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1842 unstratified glacial drift consisting of clay, sand, gravel, and boulders intermingled

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. prep. & conj. --prep. 1 up to or as late as (wait till six o'clock; did not return till night). 2 up to the time of (faithful till death; waited till the end). --conj. 1 up to the time when (wait till I return). 2 so long that (laughed till I cried). Usage: Until is more usual when beginning a sentence. Etymology: OE & ON til to, rel. to TILL(3) 2. n. a drawer for money in a shop or bank etc., esp. with a device recording the amount of each purchase. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn. 3. v.tr. prepare and cultivate (land) for crops. Derivatives: tillable adj. tiller n. Etymology: OE tilian strive for, cultivate, f. Gmc 4. n. stiff clay containing boulders, sand, etc. deposited by melting glaciers and ice-sheets. Etymology: 17th c. (Sc.): orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Till Till, v. i. To cultivate land. --Piers Plowman.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Till Till, n. [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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Till Till, n. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Till Till, v. 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, prep..] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Till Till, prep. [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, gatils, fit, convenient, and E. till to cultivate. See Till, v. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tills) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. In spoken English and informal written English, till is often used instead of until. They had to wait till Monday to ring the bank manager... I've survived till now, and will go on doing so without help from you. PREP • Till is also a conjunction. They slept till the alarm bleeper woke them at four. CONJ 2. In a shop or other place of business, a till is a counter or cash register where money is kept, and where customers pay for what they have bought. (BRIT; in AM, use cash register) ...long queues at tills that make customers angry. N-COUNT 3. A till is the drawer of a cash register, in which the money is kept. (AM) He checked the register. There was money in the till. N-COUNT: usu the N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Money-drawer. II. v. a. Cultivate, dress the ground. III. prep. Until, to the time of, up to. IV. conj., ad. Until, to the time when.

Moby Thesaurus

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