1. whiles - Noun
2. whiles - Verb
3. whiles - Adverb
4. whiles - Conjunction
Meanwhile; meantime.
sometimes; at times.
During the time that; while.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLeave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest. George Herbert
Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at mornings And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts. A. E. Housman
Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions. William Shakespeare
Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes, And blesseth her with his two happy hands. Edmund Spenser
Quhiles the hawk hes, and whiles he hunger hes. Scottish Proverb
Quhiles thou, whiles I, soe goes the Baillerie. Scottish Proverb