whiles

adv

1. (Scotland, archaic, not-comparable)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. (Scotland, archaic, not-comparable)meanwhile

   “the good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour”

conj

1. (archaic, dialectal)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.”

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of while

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of while