somerset1 (sumerset)

Same as somersault. somerset1 (sum'er-set), v. i. [Also summerset; erset. All that is true is something . Des cartes, Meditations (tr. by Veitch), v. 3. A thing worthy of consideration; a person or thing of importance. If a man think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Gal. vi. 3. Thus God has made each of us to be something , to have a real place, and do a real work in this world. J. F. Clarke , Self-Culture, p. 49. 4. A part or portion more or le ; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.. Something yet of doubt remains. Milton , P. L., viii. 13. Still from his little he could something spare To feed the hungry, and to clothe the bare. W. Harte , Eulogius. something (sum'thing), adv. [ His worst fault is, that he is given to prayer; he is some thing peevish that way. Shak., M. W. of W., i. 4. 14. I am sorry I must write to you this sad story; yet, to countervail it something, Saxon Waymor thrives well. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 29. Don't you think I look something like Cherry in the Beaux' Stratagem? Goldsmith , She Stoops to Conquer, iii. 2. At some distance. For 't must be done to-night, And something from the palace. Shak ., Macbeth, iii. 1. 181. sometime (sum'tim), adv . [ sometimes . It was clept somtyme the Vale of Mambree, and sumtyme it was clept the Vale of Teres, because that Adam wepte there, an 100 Zeer. Mandeville , Travels, p. 65. Nothing in him seem'd inordinate, Save sometime too much wonder of his eye. Shak ., Lucrece, 1. 95. 2. At a certain time; on a certain occasion; once upon a time; once. This Noble Gentlewoman tooke sometime occasion to shew him to some friends. Capt. John Smith , True Travels, I. 29. I was sometime taken with a sudden giddine , and Humphrey, seeing me beginning to totter, ran to my as Sheridan , St. Patrick's Day, ii. 2. sistance. Our sometime sister, now our queen. Shak., Hamlet, i. 2. 8. This forlorne carca e of the sometime Ierusalem. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 107. sometimes (sum'timz), adv. [ I'll come sometimes , and crack a case with you. Fletcher, Spanish Curate, ii. 2. About the same time, one mid-night, a Cloud sometimes bloody , sometimes fiery, was seen over all England. Milton , Hist. Eng., vi. 2t. At one time; at or for a certain time in the past; formerly; once; sometime. He [K. William] gave to his Nephew, Alane Earl of Brit ain, all the Lands which sometimes belonged to Earl Edwyn. Baker , Chronicles, p. 24. IMG:content-1529.png:[blocks in formation] someway (sum'wā), adv . Somehow; by some means or other; in some way. somewhat (sum'hwot), n. [ sumquat ; somel + what.] 1. Something not specified. To conclude, by erecting this Achademie, there shalbe he are after, in effecte, no gentleman within this Realme but good for some what . Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 12. Have but patience, And you shall witne somewhat. Fletcher (and another?), Nice Valour, ii. 1. There's somewhat in this world ami Shall be unriddled by and by. Tennyson, Miller's Daughter. 2. A measure or degree indeterminate; more or le ; a little. They instruct their youth in the knowledge of Letters, Malayan principally, and I suppose in somewhat of Arabick, being all Mahometans. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 137. 3. A person or thing of importance. somewhat (sum'hwot), adv . In some measure or degree; rather; a little. Vlfin is som - what a-quytte of the synne that he hadde in the love makinge, but I am not yet a-quyt of that. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 87. There liv'd, as authors tell, in days of yore, A widow, somewhat old, and very poor. Dryden, Cock and Fox, 1. 2 somewhen (sum'hwen), adv . [ when .] At some time, indefinitely; some time or other. [Recent.] Some folks can't help hoping that they may have another chance to make things fair and even, somewhere, Kingsley, Water Babies, viii. somewhen, somehow. Somewhen, before the dinner-bell. I cannot tie myself to the minute-hand of the clock, my dear child. G. Meredith, Egoist, xix. somewhere (sum'hwar), adv. [ sumwar ; some- where in this neighborhood; the line must be drawn somewhere .-2. To some unknown or unspecified place; somewhither. Perhaps some merchant hath invited him, And from the mart he 's somewhere gone to dinner. Shak., C. of E., ii. 1. 5. somewhile (sum'hwil), adv . [Early mod. E. som while, summehwile , sumewile, sumwile; while .] 1. Sometimes; at one time or another; from time to time; at times. The silly wretches are compell'd som - while To cut new channels for the course of Nile; Som times som Cities ruins to repair; Som times to build huge Castles in the air. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Lawe. 3. At one time; for a certain time in the past; 2. For a while; for a time. formerly; once. Ebron was wont to ben the princypalle Cytee of Phil i sty enes: and there duelleden somtyme the Geauntz. Mandeville , Travels, p. 66. From thens we went to the Deed See, where somtyme stode the Cyties of Sodom and Gomer, and other that sanke for synne. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 43. Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest. Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 4. 29. 4. At an indefinite future time; by and by: as, sometime I will explain. Sometyme he rekne shal, Whan that his tayl shal brennen in the glede, For he noght helpeth needfulle in her nede. Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale, 1. 12. IMG:content-1530.png:[blocks in formation] somewhither Somewhither would she have thee go with her. Shak., Tit. And., iv. 1. 11.