Whilere
(Whil`ere") adv. [While + ere] A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. [Obs.]
Helpeth me now as I did you whilere.
Chaucer.
He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere
Entered the world.
Milton. Whiles
(Whiles) adv. [See While, n., and -wards.]
1. Meanwhile; meantime. [R.]
The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour.
Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
The whiles.
See under While, n.
Whiles
(Whiles), conj. During the time that; while. [Archaic] Chaucer. Fuller.
Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him.
Matt. v. 25. Whilk
(Whilk) n. [See Whelk a mollusk.]
1. (Zoöl.) A kind of mollusk, a whelk. [Prov. Eng.]
2. (Zoöl.) The scoter. [Prov. Eng.]
Whilk
(Whilk), pron. Which. [Obs. or Scot.]
Whilk is sometimes used in Chaucer to represent the Northern dialect.
Whilom
(Whi"lom) adv. [AS. hwilum, properly, at times, dative pl. of hwil; akin to G. weiland formerly,
OHG. hwilom, See While, n.] Formerly; once; of old; erewhile; at times. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser.
Whilom, as olde stories tellen us,
There was a duke that highte Theseus.
Chaucer.