Search the Dictionary

A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.

Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.

he mind; idea; thought; image; conception. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Bacon. A man wise in his own conceit. Prov. xxvi. 12.

style in writing or speaking. The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. I. Watts.

A combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico- hemispherical; conico-subulate.

Convalescent. [R.] He found the queen somewhat convalesced. J. Knox.

Somewhat cool. The nights began to grow a little coolish. Goldsmith.

A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion. It is harder to dance a corant well, than a jig. Sir W. temple. Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath. Macaulay.

m the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.

A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.

The face; the features. In countenance somewhat doth resemble you. Shak.

The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

An exceedingly faint roundish or somewhat oblong nebulous light near the ecliptic and opposite the sun, best seen during September and October, when in the constellations Sagittarius and Pisces. Its cause is not yet understood. Called also Gegenschein.

Somewhat coy or reserved. Warner.

Somewhat sour or cross. The wips of the most crabbish Satyristes. Decker.

l in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles somewhat resemble combs.

(Zoöl.) A color marking or structure on the head somewhat resembling a hood.

An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.

A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway. [Written also cummin.] Rank-smelling rue, and cumin good for eyes. Spenser. Black cumin (Bot.), a plant (Nigella…

Somewhat damp. [Obs.] Drayton.