noun

• An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.

conj

• (Northern England, Scotland) Until.
  "I'll wait while you've finished painting."

prep

• (Northern England, Scotland) Until.
  "I may be conveyed into your chamber; I'll lie under your bed while midnight."

verb

• (transitive, now only in combination with away; see also while away) To pass (time) idly.
  "I whiled away the hours whilst waiting for him to arrive"
• (transitive) To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.
  "They whiled them with such answere as suted to their purposes, and long adoe was made in weaving and unweaving Penelopes web, till the Spanish Armada was upon the Coast, and the very Ordnance proclaimed in their eares a surcease from further illusions."
• (intransitive, archaic) To elapse, to pass.
  "The tedious hours whiled slowly on, 'till the succeeding afternoon, when the expected carriage made its appearance much sooner than they had promised themselves."