'till
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.79 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] they were enabled to bear it, ’till being distracted by their torments, their understandings were thrown off the hinges […]"
- "[The water] sustains these Particles, and carries them on together with it ’till such time as its Motion begins to remit and be less rapid than it was at, and near its Source; […]"
- "’Tis very remarkable, that if one of the Cenſors died, no body was ſubſtituted in his room ’till the next Luſtrum, and his Partner was oblig’d to quit his Office; becauſe the Death of a Cenſor happen’d juſt before the ſacking of Rome by the Gauls, and was ever after accounted highly ominous and unfortunate."
- "After it is well rubbed and winnowed, you muſt then Ree it over in a fine Sieve, and if any of the Malt be uncleanſed, then rub it again into the Sieve, ’till it be pure, and the rubbings will ariſe on the Top of the Sieve, […]"
- "Strew good Luck, Ouphes, on every ſacred Room, / That it may ſtand ’till the perpetual Doom, / In State as wholeſom, as in State ’tis fit, / Worthy the Owner, and the Owner it."
- "Coarſe are his Meals, the Fortune of the Chaſe, / Amidſt the running Stream he ſlakes his Thirſt, / Toil’s all the Day, and at th’ approach of Night / On the firſt friendly Bank he throws him down, / Or reſts his Head upon a Rock ’till Morn: […]"