'The whilst' definitions:
Definition of 'The whilst'
From: GCIDE
- Whilst \Whilst\, adv. [From Whiles; cf. Amongst.] While. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- Whilst the emperor lay at Antioch. --Gibbon. [1913 Webster]
- The whilst, in the meantime; while. [Archaic.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]