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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Whiles

Whiles (hwīlz), 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.

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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.