whiles

• enPR: wīlz, IPA^(key): /waɪlz/
• Rhymes: -aɪlz
• Homophone: wiles (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

From while +‎ -s.

whiles (not comparable)

1. (archaic or Scotland) sometimes; at times
   • 1927, John Buchan, Witch Wood, published 1988, page 14:

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

2. (archaic or Scotland) meanwhile
   • Sir Walter Scott

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

whiles

1. (archaic or dialectal) while
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I scene ii:

     Portia: […] Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV scene i:

     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.

whiles

1. plural of while

whiles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of while

• enPR: wīlz, IPA^(key): /waɪlz/
• Rhymes: -aɪlz

whiles

1. Sometimes

   Whiles thay gang tae the strand, but maistly tae the bens- Sometimes they go to the beach, but mostly to the mountains