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A way along which something slides.

Obliquely. [Obs.] Carew.

An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.

small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun.

A kind of knotweed (Polygonum Bistorta).

An East Indian climbing plant (Strychnos colubrina) having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent.

A yellow-flowered composite plant (Helenium autumnale) the odor of which is said to cause sneezing.

The wood of a South African tree. See Neishout.

A European herbaceous plant (Achillea Ptarmica) allied to the yarrow, having a strong, pungent smell.

To snow; to abound. [Obs.] It snewed in his house of meat and drink. Chaucer.

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.

At some indefinite time. [R.]

In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another. "Somewhere nigh at hand." Milton.

Once; for a time. Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile There crept in wolves, full of fraund and guile. Spenser.

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other. Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither. Barrow.

A female fortune teller. [Scot.]

Quite new; brand-new; fire-new. "A span-new archbishop's chair." Fuller.

To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject. Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth. Rev. ii. 16.

One who spews.

The state of being spewy.