Word Meanings - WHILST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

While. Whilst the emperor lay at Antioch. Gibbon. The whilst, in the meantime; while. Shak.

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• WHILST
  While. Whilst the emperor lay at Antioch. Gibbon. The whilst, in the meantime; while. Shak.
• WHILES
  1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n.
• EMPEROR
  The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; -- a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia. Emperor goose , a large and handsome goose , found in Alaska. -- Emperor moth
• WHILERE
  A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.
• EMPERORSHIP
  The rank or office of an emperor.
• MEANTIME; MEANWHILE
  The intervening time; as, in the meantime .
• ANTIOCHIAN
  1. Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers. 2. Of or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria. Antiochian epoch , a method of computing time, from the proclamation of liberty granted to
• GIBBON
  Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing. Note: The white-handed gibbon ,
• WHILE
  wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All
• ERSTWHILE
  Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.
• EREWHILE; EREWHILES
  Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak.
• WORTHWHILE
  Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.
• AWHILE
  For a while; for some time; for a short time.
• SOMEWHILE
  Once; for a time. Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile There crept in wolves, full of fraund and guile. Spenser.
• THEREWHILE
  At that time; at the same time. Laud.
• WAIT--WHILE
  One of the Australian wattle trees , so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes. = Wait-a-bit.
• OTHERWHILE; OTHERWHILES
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland.