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The while
(gcide) | While \While\, n. [AS. hw[imac]l; akin to OS. hw[imac]l,
hw[imac]la, OFries. hw[imac]le, D. wigl, G. weile, OHG.
w[imac]la, hw[imac]la, hw[imac]l, Icel. hv[imac]la a bed,
hv[imac]ld rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time,
and probably to L. quietus quiet, and perhaps to Gr. ? the
proper time of season. [root]20. Cf. Quiet, Whilom.]
1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a
time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All this
while." --Shak.
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This mighty queen may no while endure. --Chaucer.
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[Some guest that] hath outside his welcome while,
And tells the jest without the smile. --Coleridge.
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I will go forth and breathe the air a while.
--Longfellow.
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2. That which requires time; labor; pains. [Obs.]
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Satan . . . cast him how he might quite her while.
--Chaucer.
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At whiles, at times; at intervals.
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And so on us at whiles it falls, to claim
Powers that we dread. --J. H.
Newman.
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The while, The whiles, in or during the time that;
meantime; while. --Tennyson.
Within a while, in a short time; soon.
Worth while, worth the time which it requires; worth the
time and pains; hence, worth the expense; as, it is not
always worth while for a man to prosecute for small debts.
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The whiles
(gcide) | While \While\, n. [AS. hw[imac]l; akin to OS. hw[imac]l,
hw[imac]la, OFries. hw[imac]le, D. wigl, G. weile, OHG.
w[imac]la, hw[imac]la, hw[imac]l, Icel. hv[imac]la a bed,
hv[imac]ld rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time,
and probably to L. quietus quiet, and perhaps to Gr. ? the
proper time of season. [root]20. Cf. Quiet, Whilom.]
1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a
time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All this
while." --Shak.
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This mighty queen may no while endure. --Chaucer.
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[Some guest that] hath outside his welcome while,
And tells the jest without the smile. --Coleridge.
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I will go forth and breathe the air a while.
--Longfellow.
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2. That which requires time; labor; pains. [Obs.]
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Satan . . . cast him how he might quite her while.
--Chaucer.
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At whiles, at times; at intervals.
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And so on us at whiles it falls, to claim
Powers that we dread. --J. H.
Newman.
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The while, The whiles, in or during the time that;
meantime; while. --Tennyson.
Within a while, in a short time; soon.
Worth while, worth the time which it requires; worth the
time and pains; hence, worth the expense; as, it is not
always worth while for a man to prosecute for small debts.
[1913 Webster]Whiles \Whiles\, adv. [See While, n., and -wards.]
1. Meanwhile; meantime. [R.]
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The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of
some majored troubadour. --Sir. W.
Scott.
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2. sometimes; at times. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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The whiles. See under While, n.
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Worth the while
(gcide) | Worth \Worth\, a. [OE. worth, wur[thorn], AS. weor[eth], wurE;
akin to OFries. werth, OS. wer[eth], D. waard, OHG. werd, G.
wert, werth, Icel. ver[eth]r, Sw. v[aum]rd, Dan. v[ae]rd,
Goth. wa['i]rps, and perhaps to E. wary. Cf. Stalwart,
Ware an article of merchandise, Worship.]
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1. Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. [Obs.]
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It was not worth to make it wise. --Chaucer.
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2. Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to
be exchanged for.
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A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats. --Shak.
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All our doings without charity are nothing worth.
--Bk. of Com.
Prayer.
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If your arguments produce no conviction, they are
worth nothing to me. --Beattie.
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3. Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a
good sense.
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To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.
--Milton.
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This is life indeed, life worth preserving.
--Addison.
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4. Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to
the value of.
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At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty
hundred crowns. --Addison.
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Worth while, or Worth the while. See under While, n.
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