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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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.

A person or thing of importance; a somebody.

Here come those that worship me.
They think that I am

somewhat

Tennyson.

adv.

In some degree or measure; a little.

His giantship is gone,

somewhat

crestfallen.

Milton.

Somewhat

back from the village street.

Longfellow.

Noun.

[some and what.]

Something, though uncertain what.

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

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.

adv.

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