Part 566

Shak.

Some"what` (?), n. 1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.

These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.

Grew.

Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.

Dryden.

2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody.

Here come those that worship me. They think that I am somewhat.

Tennyson.

Some"what`, adv. In some degree or measure; a little.

His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen.

Milton.

Somewhat back from the village street.

Longfellow.

Some"when`, adv. At some indefinite time. [R.]

Some"where` (?), adv. In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another. "Somewhere nigh at hand." Milton.

Some"while` (?), adv. Once; for a time.

Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile There crept in wolves, full of fraud and guile.

Spenser.

Some"whith`er (?), adv. To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither.

Barrow.

So"mite (s"mt), n. [Gr. sw^ma body.] (Anat. & Zoöl.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic (#), a.

||Som`meil" (?), n. [F.] Slumber; sleep.

Som"mer*set (?), n. See Somersault.

Som*nam"bu*lar (?), a. Of or pertaining to somnambulism; somnambulistic. Mrs. Browning.

Som*nam"bu*late (?), v. i. & t. To walk when asleep.

Som*nam`bu*la"tion (?), n. [L. somnus sleep + ambulatio a walking about, from ambulare to walk. See Somnolent, Amble.] The act of walking in sleep.