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Till   /tɪl/   Listen
Till

noun
1.
Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together.  Synonym: boulder clay.
2.
A treasury for government funds.  Synonyms: public treasury, trough.
3.
A strongbox for holding cash.  Synonyms: cashbox, money box.
verb
(past & past part. tilled; pres. part. tilling)
1.
Work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation.



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"Till" Quotes from Famous Books



... tardier step his Proteus mind, With numerous Instincts fraught, that lose their force Like shallow streams, divided in their course; Long weak, and helpless, on the fostering breast, In fond dependence leans the infant guest, Till reason ripens what young impulse taught, And builds, on sense, the lofty pile of thought; From earth, sea, air, the quick perceptions rise, And swell the mental fabric ...
— Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee - A Bee Keeper's Manual • L. L. Langstroth
... a distinction must be made between the individual who has been chaste till the normal time of marriage and whose sexual life is truly monogamous, and that abnormal group who remain chaste and celibate to an advanced age. These last are not moral in the last analysis, if they have valuable ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
... He never said anything but that he loved you, and he never thought anything but that you were going to be his. Men never do—till the wedding day. Then they never think of anything but a place to run," she finished laughingly, as she began to arrange on a stand the quantity of little white boxes waiting ...
— Miss Billy's Decision • Eleanor H. Porter
... bluff which is yet too high for the ladder, he swings this rope aloft like a lasso, the hook catches at the top of the bluff, and then the tourist climbs the rope, hand over hand—being always particular to try and forget that if the hook gives way he will never stop falling till he arrives in some part of Switzerland where they are not expecting him. Another important thing—there must be a rope to tie the whole party together with, so that if one falls from a mountain or down a bottomless chasm ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... come," she thought. The voices were deadened to a hum by the sod walls, till that of the stranger raised itself in such indignant protest ...
— The Spoilers • Rex Beach


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