whiles

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   sometimes

   sometimes; at times

   • Man, I've diverted myself whiles with the science of the stars, and can make a shape at calculating a nativity.
2. 2

   meanwhile

   • the good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour
3. 3

   while, whilst

   • Portia: […]Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
   • for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
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   1. 4

      plural of while

   2. 5

      third-person singular simple present indicative of while

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