·noun A vetch; a tare.
II. Till ·vi To cultivate land.
III. Till ·noun A tray or drawer in a chest.
V. Till ·noun A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
VI. Till ·noun A money drawer in a shop or store.
VIII. Till ·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.
IX. 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.
X. Till ·vt 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.
XI. Till ·noun 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.