Till
[tɪl]
Definition
(noun.) unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together.
(verb.) work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation; 'till the soil'.
Editor: Nicolas--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A vetch; a tare.
(n.) A drawer.
(n.) A tray or drawer in a chest.
(n.) A money drawer in a shop or store.
(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.
(n.) A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
(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.
(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.
(prep.) 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.
(prep.) To prepare; to get.
(v. i.) To cultivate land.
Editor: Lorna
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Money-drawer.
prep. Until, to the time of, up to.
conj. or ad. Until, to the time when.
v. a. Cultivate.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Plow, prepare, cultivate, dress, tend
ANT:Neglect, waste, abandon, fallow
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Definition
n. a money-box or drawer in a desk counter or trunk.
n. the usual name in Scotland for Boulder-clay a widely-distributed stony clay usually tough and hard unquestionably the result of glaciation probably being merely the bottom-moraine or ground-moraine of extinct glaciers.
prep. to the time of.—adv. to the time when: to the degree that.
v.t. to cultivate.—adj. Till′able arable.—ns. Till′age act or practice of tilling: husbandry: a place tilled; Till′er; Till′ing.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing money and valuables in a till, foretells coming success. Your love affairs will be exceedingly favorable. An empty one, denotes disappointed expectations.
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Examples
- I did not invite her back till it was too late. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He _could not_ walk on, till daylight came again; and here he stretched himself close to the wall--to undergo new torture. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But she took such a long walk up and down our rooms that night, while I was writing to Agnes, that I began to think she meant to walk till morning. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The quarter is not due till Christmas, but you may pay it, and have done with it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was not, however, till the invention of telegraphs that anything approaching to the means of holding regular communication by signals was attained. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He always used to say 'twas his nose bleedn, till he must have pomped all the blood out of 'um. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Till the Mounds is down and this business completed, you're accountable for all the property, recollect. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I should like that well enough, dear,' replied Charlotte; 'but tills ain't to be emptied every day, and people to get clear off after it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Tills be blowed! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The man who had discovered that it could be tilled died of the labour; the man who succeeded him in possession ruined himself in fertilizing it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The attitude of the common people who tilled the fields and herded the beasts towards the temple would remain simple and credulous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While my father carried on the manufacture of leather and worked at the trade himself, he owned and tilled considerable land. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I saw common men, there--men who were neither priests nor princes--who yet absolutely owned the land they tilled. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nowhere was there evidence of a man tilling the fields or performing any of the homely duties of the village. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But as the Roman Empire grew, its armies absorbed its intelligent farmers, the tilling of the soil was left to the menial and the slave, and the Empire and agriculture declined together. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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