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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

May 27, 2012

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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

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(70) Words.

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(783) Words.

abbey
abeyance
ablactation
ablution
abstract
abstraction
acetous
acolyte
addition
adfiliation
adiaphorous
adjournment
adopter
advocate
afford
agricultor
agricultural
aguillaneuf
albegeois
albigenses
albion
alcohol
alcoholization
alcoholize
alembic
algebra
allegro
alligator
aloes
alphenix
amber
amulet
ancient
anger
anhima
annihilate
antistrophe
appease
appeased
aquatinta
aquitanian
arable
ardent
armigerous
armistice
army
arquebusade
arrack
arrestment
artillery
asphaltum
attend
bac
bailif
balloon
barbel
barley
barley-sugar
baron
basilary
bastard
bateau
battel
batter
battle
battle-axe
battlement
bay-salt
beagle
beat
beatification
beating
beauty
becalm
beverage
bezoar
bias
bidale
birhomboidal
bishop
black-cap
boil
boiler
bolt-head
bonny
borough
bourn
brandy
breed
bring
brooch
broom
buffet
bull-fight
bumper
burn
butter
calm
calmer
calming
calmness
calomel
can
candle
cannonade
cantillate
cantillation
capitol
captain
caption
caraway
caricature
carry
cartel
casemate
cattle
change
chimney-corner
chirograph
chuk
cinnamon
cinque-foil
circulation
cistern
citron-water
civil
classical
clatter
clear
climax
cling
club
coat
cock-fighting
cohobate
cohobated
cohobating
cohobation
colcothar
colony
colophony
combination
come
commendam
commissary
communicate
concubinage
conquer
considerably
continual
conversion
coot
cope
corody
corporation
coscinomancy
cotillon
countenance
countermine
craze
cringle
croft
crout
crown-imperial
crush
cucurbit
cultivable
cultivate
cultivated
cultivating
cultivation
cultivator
culture
culverin
dally
dance
dapifer
dare
debar
debark
deep
degrade
demur
depend
dephlegmate
dephlegmation
depth
desert
desirable
detaing
dewy
dig
dine
dis
discontinuance
dismount
disqualification
disrelish
dissection
distance
distill
distillable
distillation
distillatory
distilled
distiller
distillery
distilling
distillment
diving-bell
do
dole
draft
drake
dram
draw
dress
dressed
dropped
dropping
drops
dunning
earable
early
earth
easter
educate
electricity
elegit
emboss
empale
empyreuma
en
encounter
engineer
enginery
eolipile
equip
equipage
erst
erstwhile
escrow
essential
ether
evolution
excel
exception
excise
exclusive
exercise
exhaust
exorcism
expectant
expedient
exsudation
extill
extillation
extract
faeces
faints
fairly
fall
fallow
farm
fate
feasible
feed
feel
fetus
feud
fiber
field
fill
filthy
find
fine
finestill
finestiller
finestilling
fire
firemaster
fireworker
firmless
flagellant
flagrant
flake
floor
follow
foreigner
formal
fountain-tree
friendly
friendship
fritillary
gainage
galbanum
galloper
garden
gardening
gavelkind
generalize
geneva
geoponic
gin
glebe
good
goosegrass
gooseneck
grains
gram
griffon
ground
grudging
grumble
gunner
gunpowder
guzzle
hall
handsome
hankering
haunt
hawhaw
heap
heave
helm
herd
hermetical
hide
his
hitherto
hold
horticultor
horticulture
hum
hungary-water
hunting
husband
husbandman
husbandry
hush
hydrofluoric
hypophosphorous
hypostatical
ides
ignescent
ignition
ill
illusive
immersion
imparlance
impression
improvable
improve
inarable
incult
indigo
inefficacious
inertitude
infuse
infused
infusing
infusion
initiate
injunction
ink
insinuate
instill
instillation
instilled
instiller
instilling
instillment
intercessor
intermix
interpleader
interruption
introduce
introduction
inure
j
jellybag
jog
jot
journey
julian
kill
knock
krout
kumiss
labor
labored
lacmus
last
law
lay
layland
lead
length
lent
level
license
lieutenant
life
limbec
liquor
livery
logician
low-wines
lozenge
luff
lug
lull
lulling
magazine
main
make
manure
marriage
match
matrix
matross
may-dew
meadow
measure
meet
metempsychosis
minor
miracle
mixture
mob
molder
money-box
month
moral
morrow
mouth
move
muffle
mum
municipal
my
naphthaline
neaped
neither
nestle
new
nomad
nonage
note
novel
numeration
nyctalops
nyctalopy
oak
obtain
occupy
of
oft
oil
onward
open
orchard
ordeal
ordnance
overbear
pacify
paddle
pancake
parenthesis
paring
park
pass
passivity
pastil
payable
peaceful
pelican
peppermint
perceive
period
persisting
pestillation
pestle
phlem
pinch
pintle
pistil
pistillaceous
pistillate
pistillation
pistilliferous
plaster
pleadings
pledge
plow
plow-land
ply
polite
poll
poppy
pose
postillion
powder-cart
prepare
price
prop
property
province
provisor
prowl
pungent
purse
pyroligneous
pyrolignic
pyrolignous
pyrolithic
pyromalic
pyromucous
pyrotartaric
pyrotartarous
quarter
queachy
quench
quick-match
quiescent
quiet
quieted
quieting
quietness
quietsome
quiver
rack
rag
ragged
raisin
ravel
ravishment
raw
reassure
receiver
recipient
rector
redress
reduce
reduction
reflect
refrigeratory
regiment
remain
remainder
remembrance
reprieve
reseize
reserve
respond
rest
restore
retort
retreat
return
revert
rhetorician
ridge
rifle
rightfulness
rigid
ring
rise
road
rose-water
rostrum
rote
roundhouse
roundridge
rowen
royal
ruck
rudder
rug
rum
running
sabbath
sabbatical
sabianism
sacred
saker
sapience
satisfy
saturate
saturation
saving
saxon
scapaism
scepter
scintillant
scintillate
scintillating
scintillation
scrip
secant
sedate
septfoil
sequester
sequestration
serenade
serenity
serpentine
servant
shall
shallowness
shaver
shilling
shrove-tuesday
siege
sight
silence
silent
silentness
silver-weed
sincere
siphon
sit
sleep
so
soak
soft
solemn
solitary
soluble
something
speed
spirit
staddle
stagnant
stale
stall
stand
starboard
stay
steal
steep
steerage
stile
still
still-born
still-burn
still-life
still-stand
stillatitious
stillatory
stilled
stiller
stillicide
stillicidious
stilling
stillness
stilly
stock-still
stolid
stone
stone-still
stoniness
stool
store
strong-water
structure
sublieutenant
sublimate
sublimation
subtilly
succeed
sufferer
sugar
suit
supersede
supple
sure
surplus
surrenderor
survive
sweating-sickness
sweep
swivel
sympathetical
synthesis
tag
target
tarry
team
tell
temporize
tempt
tertiary
tetter
teutonic
then
theocracy
third
thredbare
thwaite
tickle
tickling
tides-man
till
tillable
tillage
tilled
tiller
tiller-rope
tillering
tilling
tillman
tilly-fally
tilly-vally
tilth
titillate
titillation
tokay
torrefaction
torrefy
torricellian
tottery
touch
train
transfuse
treacle-water
trencher
triennial
triet
troop
try
tube
tumbrel
tumult
turnpike
tutorage
twinge
ule-tree
uncultivable
uncultivated
undistilled
unimproved
unlabored
unscintillating
until
untilled
up
usquebaugh
vacuum
vanity
vegeto-animal
vent
vigil
viol
visage
voice
vouch
wager
wait
ward
wash
waste
wasteful
water-level
wave
wezand
whip-staff
whisky
whist
will
window
winter-rig
within
without
womb
workman
worm
worry
wring-bolt
wrought
year
yell
yet

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1828 Definition

TILL, n. A vetch; a tare. [Local.]

TILL

1913 Definition

Till (till)
n.	(?)
Till
[Abbrev. from lentil.]

A vetch; a tare.

[Prov. Eng.]

A drawer.

Specifically: (a)

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.

Loudon.

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.

He . . . came till an house. Chaucer.

Women, up till this
Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo. Tennyson.

Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his writings -- all through them till the very end. Prof. Wilson.

Till now, to the present time. -- Till then, to that time.

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.

And said unto them, Occupy till I come. Luke xix. 13.

Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God. Jer. Taylor.

There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived. Macaulay.

* This use may be explained by supposing an ellipsis of when, or the time when, the proper conjunction or conjunctive adverb begin when.

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.

No field nolde [would not] tilye. P. Plowman.

the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. Gen. iii. 23.

To prepare; to get.

[Obs.] W. Browne.

To cultivate land.

Piers Plowman.

Noah Says...

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

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The foundation for American Heritage Access [AHA] strives to capture the essence of American culture with an intent to make early American manuscripts accessible to modern society. We believe that the successful future of this country is dependent on honoring and respecting its past. In order to achieve this ideal, several projects will be introduced and executed. The first initiatives of Project::Noah will involve the accessibility of the 1828 American dictionary.

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The first vision, Vision::Reprint, has an intent to make a modern printing of the first dictionary of the American language available to the public for under $25. The first task, Task::Access, involves the digitizing of the original 1828 dictionary. The dictionary is available in microfilm (American Culture Series, Reel 335.6-336.1, Michigan University Microfilms) at many universities. To digitize the microfilm as a batch process requires a special scanner.

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The third vision, Vision::Recapture, has an intent to evoke the importance of Noah Webster in our American Heritage. This vision will manifest itself in a commissioned painting of Noah Webster. The process involved will require the input from concerned Americans. The final commission painting will be derived from initial sketches and digital compositions. Feedback from the community is essential for this vision's success throughout the entire process.

May 27, 2012