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Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy. [R. & Poetic] Subnuvolar lights of evening sharply slant. Milnes.

Somewhat obscurely or darkly. [R.] Donne.

One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary.

Somewhat oval; nearly oval.

Somewhat pellucid; nearly pellucid.

Approximately polygonal; somewhat or almost polygonal.

Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.

Somewhat pyriform.

Somewhat rigid or stiff.

Somewhat rotund.

A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.

Somewhat terete.

Somewhat turriculate.

Deviating somewhat from the type of a species, genus, or other group; slightly aberrant.

n glands (probably the glands of Lieberkühn) of the small intestines. Its exact action is somewhat doubtful.

An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked.

ca, Southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia. In external appearance and habits they somewhat resemble humming birds, but they are true singing birds (Oscines).

A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem. He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . . yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke. W. Irving.

A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.

Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.