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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mene quhile, Mein quhill, n. and adv. (conj.). Also: meine, meyn(e, mean(e and quhyll, quhyle, while, whyle. [ME. mene while (c 1350), meene (Chaucer), e.m.E. mean while: see Mene a.2 3 (and cf. Mene time).] Appar. more often written as two words.

1. n. In (into) the mene quhile. = Mene time n. 1.(1) c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 2210.
That he wald cum in-to the meyne-quhile And be with thaim
1513 Doug. i. iv. 41.
In the meyn quhile Eneas the bank on hie Has clummyn
Ib. iii. vii. 1. Ib. iv. iv. 63. 1521 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 204.
And nocht tocum thairintill in the meynquhill
1533 Boece xiii. ix. 518. 15.. Clar. v. 2491.
In the meine quhyll
1570 Leslie 86.
In the meane whyie, King Henry … past in France
(2) 1600 Crim. Trials II. 156.
In the meane quhill of the said strugling my lord fell on his henche and elbo

2. adv. Meantime. b. conj. During the time that, while. 1649 Elgin Rec. II. 435.
Meanquhill altum silentium
16.. R. Gordon in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 399.
Mean whyle this was a doing the full parliament conveened not

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