† mint-while Obs. rare.
[App. for minute-while: see minute n. 1. Cf. mint n.3]
The duration of a minute.
| 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xiii. 217 An vnredy reue þi residue shal spene, That menye mothþe was [maister] ynne in a mynte-while. Ibid. xx. 194 As we may seo a wynter, Isykles in euesynges, thorgh hete of þe sonne Melteþ in a mynt-while [1377 B-text mynut while] to myst and to water. |