Some"what` (?), n.
1.
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.
2.
A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
Here come those that worship me.
They think that I am somewhat.
Tennyson.
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Some"what`, adv.
In some degree or measure; a little.
His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen.
Milton.
Somewhat back from the village street.
Longfellow.
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