Etymology : Middle English, from Old English til; akin to Old Norse til to, till, Old English til good
Pronunciation : t
&l, t&l, t
Function : preposition
Date : before 12th century
1. cashbox, drawer. work the soil, plow or dig soil in preparation for planting. conj. until, up to the time that. prep. until, up to. 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. 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. wilson.till now, to the present time.till then, to that time.till \till\ , n. [abbrev. from lentil.] a vetch; a tare. [prov. eng.]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.till \till\, n.
2. (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.
3. a kind of coarse, obdurate land.till \till\, v. i. to cultivate land.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.
4. mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to god. taylor. 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.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..].
5. 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. plowman. the lord god sent him forth from the garden of eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. iii.
6. 2. to prepare; to get. [obs.] browne.till n.
7. unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together [syn: boulder clay ].
8. a treasury for government funds [syn: public treasury, trough].
9. a strongbox for holding cash [syn: cashbox, money box] work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation; "till the soil".
10. till.
11. A vetch; a tare.
12. A drawer.
13. A tray or drawer in a chest.
14. A money drawer in a shop or store.
15. 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.
16. A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. To prepare; to get.
21. To cultivate land. unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation; "till the soil".
22. 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. Till is also a conjunction. They slept till the alarm bleeper woke them at four.
23. 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. long queues at tills that make customers angry.
24. A till is the drawer of a cash register, in which the money is kept. He checked the register. There was money in the till. Till and until are generally interchangeable in both writing and speech, though as the first word in a sentence until is usually preferred: Until you get that paper written, don't even think about going to the movies.·Till is actually the older word, with until having been formed by the addition to it of the prefix un-, meaning "up to." In the 18th century the spelling 'till became fashionable, as if till were a shortened form of until. Although 'till is now nonstandard, 'til is sometimes used in this way and is considered acceptable, though it is etymologically incorrect. Glacial drift composed of an unconsolidated, heterogeneous mixture of clay, sand, pebbles, cobbles, and boulders. In geology, the unsorted material deposited directly by glacial ice and showing no stratification. Till is sometimes called boulder clay because it is composed of clay, boulders of intermediate size, or both. The rock fragments are usually angular and sharp rather than rounded, because they are deposited from ice and have undergone little water transport. The pebbles and boulders may be faceted and striated from grinding while lodged in the glacier. Eulenspiegel Till no till farming till less agriculture.
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