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Meaning of WHILES

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \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.
    
  2. \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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