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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.



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