Middle English Dictionary Entry
tillen v.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | tillen v.(2) Also til(le, tilen; sg.3 tilleth, etc. & tilth; p. tilled(e, etc. & tilde, (16th cent.) tilt & (error) tildeþ; ppl. tillid, itild. |
| Etymology | From OE getillan. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To reach, extend; also fig.; ~ doun (up); (b) to reach as far as (sth.), touch; come up to (sb.), get to; also, fig. be able (to do sth.); (c) to stretch (sth.) out; also, be stretched to (a certain length); also, set out (nets) [1st quot.]; ~ oute; ben tilled, be outstretched or stretched out.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Brendan (LdMisc 108)616 : His her tilde doun to is fet.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)172 : Fram þe souþ tilþ to þe norþ erninge stret.
- a1350 SLeg.Patr.(Ashm 43)359 : Þe tormentes tilde wel heie, Somme aboute þe heued & somme up to þen eie.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)4678 : Of frenschemen had he slawe an hepe, þat tilde vp til ys knee.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.107 : Þe kyngdom of Deyra tillede and streiȝte from þe ryuer of Humber anon to þe ryuere of Tyne.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.128 : To gile no to fraude wild he neuer tille.
- ?c1400 PPl.Z (Bod 851)6.66 : The toure there Trwthe ys hymsylf tyleth vp to the sonne.
- ?a1425(?a1350) SLeg.Guth.(Jul D.9)33 : He wente and soȝte aboute; a wilde more he fond In þe contre of Grauntebregge þat was al weste lond Op þe water of Graunte and tilde [Bod: tildeþ, ?read: tilleþ] norþ and souþ.
- ?a1450 Mem.Cred.(Tan 201)75/24 : Charite is ylikened to a grete tre of þe which þe crop tilleþ in to heuene.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.228 : To þaire desire ne may [þei] neuere tille..For blisfulnesse may not be had be vice.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)44b/a : Þe ȝerde..schulde tillen into þe matrice whanne it schulde late fallen þe seed.
b
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)59 : He slow þe Pope..and alle þat he myȝt tille.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1102/25 : Mannes wit recheþ not ne tylleþ not to do suche workes.
- a1475 Hrl.Diseases Hawk A (Hrl 2340)32 : Be war þat sche [hawk] draw no blode at hir tewell with hyr beke..Sche wyll with hyr beke tyll hir tewell.
c
- a1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)150/36 : Stristre is þer me sit mid þe greahundes forte kepen þe hearde oðer tillen [Corp-C: tildeð] þe nettes aȝean ham.
- c1300 SLeg.Brendan (LdMisc 108)526 : A-boue him was a cloth i-tild [alt. to: teid] with tweie tonguene faste.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)7.220 : Among þe riche rayes ich rendred a lesson..Ich putte hem in pressours and pynned hem þer-ynne Tyl ten ȝorde oþer tw[e]lue tilled [A vr. tylyd] out þrettyne.
- a1425 PPl.A(1) (LinI 150)5.124 : On teyntre we hit [cloth] tileden.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)554 : Abraham was tyllyd vnder A tre In hy seson hym to play.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)914 : He tilt out his tung.