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"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.
