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A tree (Ochroma Laqopus) of the West Indies, having the stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare's foot. Harefoot clover (Bot.), a species of clover (Trifolium arvense) with soft and silky heads.

An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made. "Hums or haws." Congreve.

Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent. "A tender, hazy brightness." Wordsworth.

ect; to impel. [Obs.] But the sad steel seized not where it was hight Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall. Spenser.

Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish. [Colloq.] When we are hipped or in high spirits. R. L. Stevenson.

Pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs.

Somewhat like horn; hard.

A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.

Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor. Evening cloud, or humid bow. Milton.

Somewhat like a fish; having some of the characteristics of fishes; -- said of some amphibians.

Somewhat ill. [Obs.] Howell.

To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat. Shak. It made him rather indisposed than sick. Walton.

Supplying or covering with ink. Inking roller, a somewhat elastic roller,used to spread ink over forms of type, copperplates, etc. -- Inking trough or table, a trough or table from which the inking roller receives its ink.

Of a gray color, somewhat resembling that of iron freshly broken. -- n.

similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white.

ging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It is usually brownish yellow, with large, dark, somewhat angular rings, each generally inclosing one or two dark spots. It is chiefly arboreal in its habits. Called also the American tiger.

Having the surface decorated with cloudings and streaks, somewhat as if imitating jasper.

aped like two coned united at their bases; tipcat. Cotton. Kitcat roll (Agric.), a roller somewhat in the form of two cones set base to base. [Prov. Eng.]

A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

Somewhat lame. Wood.