Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TILL
TILL, v.t. [Sax. tilian, tiligan, to work, to toil, to cultivate, to prepare; W. telu, to strain. In G. bestellen, from stellen, to set, to put in order, has the sense of tilling, cultivating. These words are doubtless of one family.]
- To labor; to cultivate; to plow and prepare for seed, and to dress crops. This word includes not only plowing, but harrowing, and whatever is done to prepare ground for a crop, and to keep it free from weeds. The Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. Gen. iii.
- In the most general sense, to till may include every species of husbandry, and this may be its sense in Scripture.
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