King James Bible Dictionary

SOME, adjective sum.

1. Noting a certain quantity of a thing, but indeterminate; a portion greater or less. Give me some bread; drink some wine; bring some water.

2. Noting a number of persons or things, greater or less, but indeterminate. some theoretical writes allege that there was a time when there was no such thing as society.

3. Noting a person or thing, but not known, or not specific and definite. some person, I know not who, gave me the information. Enter the city, and some man will direct you to the house. Most gentlemen of property, as some period or other of their lives, are ambitious of representing their country in parliament.

4. It sometimes precedes a word of number or quantity, with the sense of about or near, noting want of certainty as to the specific number of amount, but something near it; as a village or some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some seventy miles distant; an object at some good distance.

5. some is often opposed to others. some men believe one thing, and others another.

6. some is often used without a noun, and then like other adjectives, is a substitute for a noun. We consumed some of our provisions, and the rest was given to the poor. some to the shores do fly, some to the woods. Your edicts some reclaim for sins, but most your life and blest example wins.

7. some is used as a termination of certain adjectives, as in handsome, mettlesome, blithesome, fullsome, lonesome, gladsome, gamesome. In these words, some has primarily the sense of little, or a certain degree; a little blithe or glad. But in usage, it rather indicates a considerable degree of the thing or quantity; as mettlesome, full of mettle or spirit; gladsome, very glad or joyous.

SOMEBODY, noun [some and body.]

1. A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate. Jesus said, somebody hath touched me Luke 8:46. We must draw in somebody that may stand 'Twixt us and danger.

2. A person of consideration. Before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody Acts 5:36.

SOMEDEAL, adverb [some and deal.] In some degree.

SOMEHOW, adverb [some and how.] One way or other; on some way not yet known. The thing must have happened somehow or other.

SOM'ERSAULT, SOM'ERSET, noun [L super and salio, to leap.] A leap by which a person jumps from a highth, turns over his head and falls upon his feet.

SOM'ERSAULT, SOM'ERSET, noun [L super and salio, to leap.] A leap by which a person jumps from a highth, turns over his head and falls upon his feet.

SOMETHING, noun [some and thing.]

1. An indeterminate or unknown event. something must have happened to prevent the arrival of our friends at the time fixed. I shall call at two o'clock, unless something should prevent. [See Thing.]

2. A substance or material thing, unknown indeterminate or not specified. A machine stops because something obstructs its motion. There must be something to support a wall or an arch.

3. A part; a portion more or less. something yet of doubt remains. Still from his little he could something spare, to feed the hungry and to clothe the bare. something of it arises from our infant state.

4. A little; an indefinite quantity or degree. The man asked me a dollar, but I gave him something more.

5. Distance not great. It must be done tonight, and something from the palace.

6. something is used adverbially for in some degree; as, he was something discouraged; but the use in not elegant.

SOMETIME, adverb [some and time.]

1. Once; formerly. That fair and warlike form, in which the majesty of buried Denmark did sometime march.

2. At one time or other hereafter. [Sometime is really a compound noun, and at is understood before it; at some time.]

SOMETIMES, adverb [some and times.]

1. At times; at intervals; not always; not and then. We are sometimes indisposed, sometimes occupied, sometimes at leisure; that is, at some times. It is good that we be sometimes contradicted.

2. At one time; opposed to another time.

SOMEWHAT, noun [some and what.]

1. Something, though uncertain what.

2. More or less; a certain quantity or degree, indeterminate. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.

3. A part, greater or less. somewhat of his good sense will suffer in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.

SOMEWHAT, adverb In some degree or quantity. This is somewhat more or less than was expected; he is somewhat aged; he is somewhat disappointed; somewhat disturbed.

SOMEWHERE, adverb [some and where.] In some place, unknown or not specified; in one place or another. He lives somewhere in obscurity. Dryden somewhere says peace to the manes of the dead.

SOMEWHILE, adverb [some and while.] Once; for a time.

SOMEWHITER, adverb To some indeterminate place.