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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.

Archipelago. These seeds furnish croton oil, like those of Croton Tiglium. [Written also tilly.]

A man who tills the earth; a husbandman. [Obs.] Tusser.

One of the Tillodontia.

formation. The species are related to the carnivores, ungulates, and rodents. Called also Tillodonta.

A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods. McElrath.

See 3d Tiller.

e of contempt, or when anything said was reject as trifling or impertinent. [Written also tille-vally, tilly-fally, tille-fally, and otherwise.] Shak.

A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds.

A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation. Motley.

A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.

war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [Obs.] And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. 1 Sam. xx. 40.

A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.

A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.

"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.

A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.