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Somewhat dank. -- Dank"ish*ness, n. In a dark and dankish vault at home. Shak.

Somewhat dark; dusky.

A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir. A much battered davenport in one of the windows, at which sat a lady writing. A. B. Edwards.

Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike. The lips put on a deadish paleness. A. Stafford.

d to intellectual decay. Macaulay. Which has caused the decay of the consonants to follow somewhat different laws. James Byrne.

ose who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclined to superstition. Burke.

and L. longicruris) of the Atlantic ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped somewhat like an apron. -- Devil's coachhorse. (Zoöl.) (a) The black rove beetle (Ocypus olens). [Eng.] (b) A large, predacious, hemipterous insect (Prionotus cristatus); the wheel bug. [U.S.] -- Devil's darning-needle. (Zoöl.) S…

izing, etc., and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. It is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar. It is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right; -- called also British gum, Alsac…

ived under this name) consisting in whirling on a string, fastened to two sticks, a small somewhat spool- shaped object (called the diabolo) so as to balance it on a string, toss it in the air and catch it, etc.

Somewhat like a dilettante.

Somewhat dim; as, dimmish eyes. "Dimmy clouds." Sir P. Sidney.

b the composure of; to discompose; to abash. The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do. Thackeray.

one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir W. Scott.

Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner. He passed me with a distant bow. Goldsmith.

A game somewhat like backgammon. Halliwell.

Somewhat drab in color.

Somewhat droll. Sterne.

Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit. He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body. W. Irving.

Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome. "A series of dullish verses." Prof. Wilson.

Somewhat like a dunce. [R.] -- Dun"cish*ness, n. [R.]