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This paradise I give thee, count it thine. 
To till, and keep, and of the fruit to eat. Milton. 
Send him from the garden forth, to till 
The ground whence he was taken. Milton. 
The husbandman tilleth the ground, is employed in an 
honest business that is necessary in life, and very capablejaf 
being made an acceptable service unto God. Law .—To 
procure; to prepare. [This is the primary meaning of the 
Sax. verb. tihan.] 
Nor knows he how to digge a well. 
Nor neatly dresse a spring : 
Nor knows a trap or snare to till. W. Browne. 
TILT, a river of England, in the county of Northumber¬ 
land, which rises among the Cheviot hills, runs southwards to 
Chillingham, and thence westwards, and falls into the 
Tweed ; 2 miles below Coldstream. 
TI'LLABLE, adj. Arable; tit for the plow.—The til¬ 
lable fields are so hilly, that the oxen can hardly take sure 
footing. Carew. 
TILLiEA [so named by Micheli, in honour of Michael 
Angelo Tilli, M.D. F.R.S., born 1653, professor of Botany 
at Pisa], in Botany, a genus of the class tetrandria, order tetra- 
gynia, natural orderof succulentse,semperviv£e (Juss.J— Ge¬ 
neric Character. Calyx: perianth four-parted, fiat; segments 
ovate, large. Corolla: petals four, ovate, acute, flat, com¬ 
monly smaller than the calyx. Stamina: filaments four, 
simple, shorter than the corolla. Anthers small. Pistil: 
germs four. Styles simple. Stigmas obtuse. Pericarp: cap¬ 
sules four, oblong, acuminate, reflexed, length of the flower, 
opening longitudinally upwards. Seeds in pairs, ovate.— 
Essential Character. Calyx three or four-parted. Petals 
three or four, equal. Capsules three or four, many seeded. 
• ]. Tillaea aquatica, or water til Itea.—Stem upright; leaves 
linear; flowers sessile. These plants are all annuals. The 
flowers are commonly four-cleft and four-stamened.—Native 
of Lapland, and very abundant near Upsal, where water 
stagnates on the mountains. 
2. Tiltea prostrata, or prostrate tillaea.—Stem prostrate; 
leaves lanceolate; flowers peduncled; peduncles shorter than 
the leaf.—Native of Germany. 
3. Tillaea Vaillantii, or Vaillant’s tiltea.—Stem upright, 
dichotomous; leaves oblong, acute, shorter than the peduncled 
flower.—Native of France, in moist places. 
4. Tiltea Capensis, or Cape tiltea.—Leaves somewhat 
oblong; flowers four-cleft.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
5. Tiltea perfoliata, or perfoliate tiltea.—This and two 
following are also natives of the Cape. 
6. Tillaea umbellata, or umbelled tiltea.—Leaves subpe- 
tioled, ovate, obtuse, entire; stem capillary, upright; flowers 
umbelled. 
7. Tiltea decumbens, or decumbent tiltea..—Decumbent; 
leaves awl-shaped ; petals shorter than .the calyx. 
8. Tiltea muscosa, or mossy tiltea.—Stems procumbent; 
flowers sessile, mostly trifid.—Native of Italy, Sicily, France 
and England, in dry, barren, sandy and gravelly soil ; 
flowering from the end of May to October. 
Although this plant is commonly triandrous, yet as the 
other species of tiltea have four stamens, it must continue 
with them in the fourth class, where Linnaeus has placed 
them. 
TI'LLAGE, s. Husbandry ; the act or practice of plow¬ 
ing or culture .—Tillage will enable the kingdom for corn 
for the natives, and to "spare for exportation. Bacon. 
Bid the laborious hind, 
Whose harden’d hands did long in tillage toil, 
Neglect the promis’d harvest of the soil. Dri/den. 
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TILLANDSIA [so named by Linnreus, in memory of 
Tillandsius, professor of physic at Aboa], in Botany, a genus 
of the class hexandria monogynia, natural order of coro- 
nariee, bromeliae ( Juss.J —Generic Character. Calyx : pe¬ 
rianth one-leafed, trifid, oblong, erect, permanent; segments 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla tubular, one-petal- 
led ; tube long, ventricose ; border trifid, obtuse, erect, small. 
Stamina: filaments six, as long as the tube of the corolla. 
Anthers acute, in the neck of the corolla, incumbent. Pistil: 
germ oblong, acuminate both ways. Style filiform, length 
of the stamens. Stigma trifid, obtuse. Pericarp: capsule 
long, obtusely three-cornered, acuminate, one or two-celled, 
three-valved. Seeds many, fastened to a very long capillary 
pappus.— Essential Character. Calyx trifid, permanent. 
Corolla trifid, bell-shaped: Capsules one-celled. Seeds co- 
mose. 
1. Tillandsiautriculata, or bottle tillandsia.—Many brown 
fibrils encompass the arms, or take firm hold on the bark of 
the trunk of trees, not as misleto, entering the bark or wood 
to suck nourishment, but only weaving and matting them¬ 
selves among one another, and thereby making to the plant 
a firm and strong foundation, whence rise several leaves on 
every side, like those of aloes or ananas, which has given 
occasion to its name of wild pine. They are folded or 
inclosed one within another, each three feet and a half long, 
and three inches broad at the base, but ending in a point, 
having a very hollow or concave inward side, and a round 
or convex outward one, forming a bason or cistern, con¬ 
taining about a quart of water, which in the rainy season 
falls upon the upper parts of the spreading leaves, and being 
conveyed down them by channels, lodges in the bottom as 
in a bottle; for the leaves having swelled out at the base, 
bend inwards close to the stalk, thus hindering the evapora¬ 
tion of the water by the heat of the sun. From the midst of 
the leavesrisesa round, smooth, stiaight, green stalk, three or 
four feet high, having many branches, and when wounded 
yielding a clear white mucilaginous gum. The flowers come 
out here and there on the branches. Dampier says he has 
many times to his great relief stuck his knile into the leaves 
just above the roots, and let out the water into his hat.— 
Native of South America. 
2. Tillandsia serrata, or serrate-leaved tillandsia.—Leaves 
serrate-spiny above; spike comose.—This is also a native of 
South America, and common in Jamaica. 
3. Tillandsia lingulata, or tongue-leaved tillandsia.—Leaves 
lanceolate-tongue-shaped, quite entire, ventricose at the base. 
—Native of South America, Jamaica and Martinico, where 
it is called ananas de bois, or wood pine-apple. 
There are, besides, in this genus, the following:—Til¬ 
landsia tenuifolia. Tillandsia flexuosa. Tillandsia setacea. 
Tillandsia paniculata. Tillandsia fasciculata. Tillandsia 
nutans. Tillandsia polystachya. Tillandsia monostachya. 
Tillandsia pruinosa. Tillandsia canescens. Tillandsia an- 
gustifolia. Tillandsia recurvata. Tillandsia usneoides, 
TILLE CHATEL, a small town in the east of France, in 
Burgundy, situated on a hill watered by the small rivers Tille 
and Ignon. Population 1000. 
TILLEMANS (Peter), was born at Antwerp in 1684, and 
visited England in 1708, where he attracted attention by his 
excellent copies from the pictures of Bourgognone and. Te¬ 
niers, of whose works he preserved the freedom and spirit. 
He also painted landscapes, with small figures, views of gen¬ 
tlemen’s seats, sea-ports, &c. and met with very considerable 
employment. The duke of Devonshire favoured him, and 
for him he painted a picture of Chatsworth, which gained 
him considerable eclat. He died here in 1734. 
Vol. XXIII. No. 1622. 
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