Category:Whiles

Whiles, adv. Etym: [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.

Whiles Whiles, conj.

Defn: during the time that; while. [archaic] chaucer. Fuller. Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with Him. Matt. v. 25.