Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Whiles"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Whiles \Whiles\, adv. [See {While}, n., and {-wards}.]
1. Meanwhile; meantime. [R.]

The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of
some majored troubadour. --Sir. W.
Scott.

2. sometimes; at times. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.

{The whiles}. See under {While}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Whiles \Whiles\, conj.
During the time that; while. [Archaic] --Chaucer. Fuller.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in
the way with him. --Matt. v. 25.


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