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Till   /tɪl/   Listen
preposition
Till  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 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." "Women, up till this Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo." "Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his writings all through them till the very end."
Till now, to the present time.
Till then, to that time.


conjunction
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." "Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God." "There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived." Note: This use may be explained by supposing an ellipsis of when, or the time when, the proper conjunction or conjunctive adverb begin when.


noun
Till  n.  A vetch; a tare. (Prov. Eng.)


Till  n.  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  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.


verb
Till  v. t.  (past & past part. tilled; pres. part. tilling)  
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." "the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken."
2.
To prepare; to get. (Obs.)


Till  v. i.  To cultivate land.





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"Till" Quotes from Famous Books



... held on without slack. She, it was evident, with confidence in her speed proving matchless, as resolute to outrun her pursuer as he to endure till midnight and fulfil his purpose. And Christian held on, still self-assured. He could not fail; he would not fail. To avenge Rol and Trella was motive enough for him to do what man could do; but for Sweyn more. She had kissed Sweyn, but he should not ...
— The Were-Wolf • Clemence Housman
... From that time till the legislative Union every enemy of England could safely count on finding a foothold and active friends in Ireland. It is much too late in the day to indulge in any recriminations on this score. The issues were the most tremendous that have divided Europe; each side was passionately ...
— Against Home Rule (1912) - The Case for the Union • Various
... thinker—a seeker after truth. There was no problem,—social, political or philosophical,—which he was not ready to grapple with. He could plunge into these subjects like a pearl-diver who means to touch bottom, and would never come out till his last breath was spent. This mental habit and his continual suffering made him only too serious, too much in earnest. Jests were not in his line, but he sometimes wrote poetry of the very highest order. He is the first and most original ...
— Sketches from Concord and Appledore • Frank Preston Stearns
... of "the Martyr Hayne," who has given to Charleston her only authentic ghost-story, the scene of which was a brick dwelling which stood till 1896 at the corner of Atlantic and Meeting Streets. Colonel Isaac H. Hayne, a soldier of the Revolution, secured a parole, that he might be with his dying wife. While on parole he was ordered to fight against his country. Rather than be forced to the crime ...
— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett
... Europeans to islands within sight of their own shores—Irish, Welsh, Breton, or Spanish,—and then, as these islands became better known, men's imaginations carried the mystery further out over the unknown western sea. The line of legend gradually extended itself till it formed an imaginary chart for Columbus; the aged astronomer, Toscanelli, for instance, suggesting to him the advantage of making the supposed island of Antillia a half-way station; just as it was proposed, long centuries after, to find a station for the ocean telegraph ...
— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson


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