Vocabulary : Tilia to Tillered

Tilia : A genus of trees, the lindens, the type of the family Tiliaceae, 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 inner bark is a valuable article of commerce. Also, a plant of this genus.
Tiliaceous : Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Tiliaceae) of which the linden (Tilia) is the type. The order includes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute.
Tiling : of Tile ;; A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles. ;; Tiles, collectively.
Till : A vetch; a tare. ;; A drawer. ;; A tray or drawer in a chest. ;; 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. ;; A kind of coarse, obdurate land. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; 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 prepare; to get. ;; To cultivate land.
Tillable : Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.
Tillage : 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. ;; A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.
Tillandsia : An immense genus of epiphytic bromeliaceous plants confined to tropical and subtropical America. They usually bear a rosette of narrow overlapping basal leaves, which often hold a considerable quantity of water. The spicate or paniculate flowers have free perianth segments, and are often subtended by colored bracts. Also, a plant of this genus. ;; A genus of 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.
Tilled : of Till
Tiller : One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman. ;; A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker. ;; A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump. ;; A young timber tree. ;; To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering. ;; A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1. ;; The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself. ;; The handle of anything. ;; A small drawer; a till.
Tillered : of Tiller
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