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Furnished with, or formed like, a small turret or turrets; somewhat turreted.

Divided into two parts, somewhat after the manner of a fork; dichotomous.

letters used in ancient manuscripts, esp. in Greek and Latin manuscripts. The letters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination. These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the 10th century a. d., being superseded by the cursive s…

conscionable, is the utmost that any tyrant ever pretended. Milton. His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen, Stalking with less unconscionable strides. Milton.

Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing.

substance, NH2.CO.OC2H5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate. It is used somewhat in medicine as a hypnotic. By extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type.

of bivalve mollusks of which the genus Venus is the type. The shells are usually oval, or somewhat heartshaped, with a conspicuous lunule. See Venus.

To utter; to report; to publish. [Obs.] By mixing somewhat true to vent more lies. Milton. Thou hast framed and vented very curious orations. Barrow.

Somewhat distended in the middle; ventricular.

Somewhat like a viper; viperous.

An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.

Somewhat viscous. Cf. Mobile, a., 2.

Somewhat wan; of a pale hue. No sun, but a wannish glare, In fold upon fold of hueless cloud. Tennyson.

merican elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.

The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.

Somewhat watery; moist; as, waterish land.

A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.

Somewhat weak; rather weak.

Somewhat weazen; shriveled. [Colloq.] "Weazeny, baked pears." Lowell.

art or process of boring an artesian well. -- Well drain. (a) A drain or vent for water, somewhat like a well or pit, serving to discharge the water of wet land. (b) A drain conducting to a well or pit. -- Well room. (a) A room where a well or spring is situated; especially, one built over a mineral spring. (b) (Naut…