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• While

  ·prep Until; till. II. While ·vi To <<Loiter>>. III. While ·noun That which requires time; labor; ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• while

  for till. 'Stay while I come,' instead of stay till I come. Used in the Southern States.--Sherwood's...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Wait-a-while

  ·add. ·noun = Wait-a-bit. II. Wait-a-while ·add. ·noun One of the Australian wattle trees (Acacia c...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• stay-a-while

  n. a tangled bush; sometimescalled Wait-a-while (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• wait-a-while

  n. also called Stay-a-while: a thicket tree. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 306: ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• once in a while

  Occasionally; sometimes. Scarcely a day passes in which from two to half a dozen of our paragraphs ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• every once in a while

  A singular though very common expression, signifying the same as every now and then. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.