Whiling

ppl. a. [f. WHILE v. + -ING².] Of time: Passing tediously, tedious: see WHILE v. 3 b.

1712.  Steele, Spect., No. 448, ¶ 1. The whiling Time, the gathering together, and waiting a little before Dinner, is the most awkwardly passed away of any Part in the four and twenty hours. Ibid., 522, ¶ 1. To pass away the whiling Moments and Intervals of Life.