till

[till]

The noun till means the same as "cash register." When you work at the store long enough, they'll let you operate the till.

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A vetch; a tare.

Noun
a strongbox for holding cash

Noun
a treasury for government funds

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"

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.

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. 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.

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.

Till now, to the present time. -- Till then, to that time.

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.

Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God.

There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived.

&hand; 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..] 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.] W. Browne.

Till

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

A vetch; a tare.

A drawer. Specifically: (a) A tray or drawer in a chest. (b) A money drawer in a shop or store.

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.

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.

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.

To cultivate land.

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Usage Examples

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.