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y or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some. Some theoretical writers allege that there was a time when there was no such thing as society. Blackstone.

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person. Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me. Luke viii. 46. We must draw in somebody that may stand "Twixt us and danger." Denham.

In some degree; somewhat. [Written also sumdel, sumdeale, and sumdele.] [Obs.] "She was somedeal deaf." Chaucer. Thou lackest somedeal their delight. Spenser.

In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow. By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length. Cheyne.

A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. [Written also summersault, sommerset, summerset, etc.] "The vaulter's sombersalts." Donne. Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset. Beau. & Fl.

e thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about. Pope. Something attemped, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.…

At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly. Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me Shak.

Formerly; sometime. [Obs.] That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak.

More or 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.

The entire body of a coelenterate.

Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.

Not isomeric; not made of the same components in the same proportions.

Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

Not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts; -- said of crystals with three unequal axes. Dana.

Unequal refractive power in the two eyes.

Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight. Wright.