TIL SEED Til seed (til; tel). (a) The seed of sesame. (b) The seed of an African asteraceous plant (Guizotia abyssinica), yielding a bland fixed oil used in medicine.
TILT
Tilt, n. Etym: [OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS. teld,
geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw. tält, tjäll,
Dan. telt, and ASThe beteldan to cover.]
1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. Denham.
2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
3. (Naut.)
Defn: A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth. — Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon.
TILT
Tilt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting.]
Defn: To cover with a tilt, or awning.
TILT Tilt, v. t. Etym: [OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. tölt an ambling pace, tölta to amble. Cf. Totter.]
1. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.