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[ME. while ne ; Anentis whom is not ouerchaunginge, nether schadewing of while ne , or tyme [tr. L. vici itudinis obumbratio ]. Wyclif, Jas. i. 17. Thurgh oure might & oure monhod main tene to gedur! What why lenes, or wanspede, wryxles [overpowers) our while ret (hwil-ar'), adv. [Early mod. E. also while are, why leare; mynde? Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 9327. Whill ere thu bad I shuld rec he the thy sheld, And now me think thu hast nede of on, ffor neyther spere ne sheld that thu may weld. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2361. Whose learned Muse thou cherisht most whilere . L. Bryskett (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 278). whiles (hwilz), conj. and adv. [ armes With owt tene changynge in chace, thies ware the cheefe Of Arthure the avenaunt, qwhylles he in erthe lengede. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3652. Whiles they are weake, betimes with them contend. Spenser, F. Q., II. iv. 34. Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him. Mat. v. 25. II. adv . At times. [Scotch.] I tuk his body on my back, And whiles I gaed, and whiles I satt. The Lament of the Border Widow (Child's Ballads, III. 87). Mony a time I hae helped Jenny Dennis on out o' the winnock, forbye creeping in whiles mysell. Scott, Old Mortality, xxv. whilesast, conj. [ Whose noble acts renowned were Whiles as he lived everywhere. Ford , Fame's Memorial, Epitaphs. whilk1, n. Another form of whelk2 , properly welk , wilk . whilk2 (hwilk), pron . and a . An obsolete or Scotch form of which1 . "What, whilk way is he geen?" he gan to crie. Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 158. whilk3 (hwilk), n. The scoter, Edemia nigra. Montagu. See cut under scoter. [Local, Brit.] whilly whilly (hwil'i), (hwil'i), v. t.; pret. and pp. whillied, ppr. whillwing. whillying. [A dial. form, perhaps a mixture of wilel with wheedle.] To cajole by wheedling; whilly-wha. [Scotch.] These baptized idols of theirs brought pike-staves and sandalled shoon from all the four winds, and whillied the old women out of their corn and their candle-ends. Scott , Abbot, xvi.