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See Till. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The seed of sesame.

See Teil.

A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover. [Written also tilburgh.]

The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, ñ, l], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.

A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamæleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.

A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles. Bancroft.

A place where tiles are made or burned; a tile kiln.

Any plant of the genus Geissois, having seeds overlapping like tiles on a roof.

A tile of stone.

A genus of trees, the lindens, the type of the family Tiliaceæ, distinguished by the winglike bract coalescent with the peduncle, and by the indehiscent fruit having one or two seeds. There are about twenty species, natives of temperate regions. Many species are planted as ornamental shade trees, and the tough fibrous…

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Tiliaceæ) of which the linden (Tilia) is the type. The order includes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute.

A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles. They . . . let him down through the tiling. Luke v. 19.

er. 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.

Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.

The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.

epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.…

One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.