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The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail. B. G. Wilder.

A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj. [India]

A Hamitic people of East Central Africa.

Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.

Somatic.

The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology.

One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist. Glanvill.

A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.

The dictrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.

See Somite.

The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure.

of or pertaining to the somatopleure.

A directive influence exercised by a mass of matter upon growing organs. Encyc. Brit.

Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.

In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.

The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.

A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America. Marryat.

Gloomy; somber. "Tall and sombrous pines." Longfellow. -- Som"brous*ly, adv. -- Som"brous*ness, n.

y or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some. Some theoretical writers allege that there was a time when there was no such thing as society. Blackstone.

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person. Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me. Luke viii. 46. We must draw in somebody that may stand "Twixt us and danger." Denham.