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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