, at certain times . . . at certain other times; as, sometimes he is earnest, sometimes he is frivolous.

Sometimes
(Some"times`), a. Former; sometime. [Obs.]

Thy sometimes brother's wife.
Shak.

Somewhat
(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.

Somewhat
(Some"what`), adv. In some degree or measure; a little.

His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen.
Milton.

Somewhat back from the village street.
Longfellow.

Somewhen
(Some"when`), adv. At some indefinite time. [R.]

Somewhere
(Some"where`) adv. In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another. "Somewhere nigh at hand." Milton.

Somewhile
(Some"while`) adv. Once; for a time.

Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile
There crept in wolves, full of fraud and guile.
Spenser.

Somewhither
(Some"whith`er) adv. To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither.
Barrow.

Somite
(So"mite) n. [Gr. sw^ma body.] (Anat. & Zoöl.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere.So*mit`ic a.

Sommeil
(||Som`meil") n. [F.] Slumber; sleep.

Sommerset
(Som"mer*set) n. See Somersault.

Somnambular
(Som*nam"bu*lar) a. Of or pertaining to somnambulism; somnambulistic. Mrs. Browning.

Somnambulate
(Som*nam"bu*late) v. i. & t. To walk when asleep.

Somnambulation
(Som*nam`bu*la"tion) n. [L. somnus sleep + ambulatio a walking about, from ambulare to walk. See Somnolent, Amble.] The act of walking in sleep.

Somnambulator
(Som*nam"bu*la`tor) n. A somnambulist.

Somnambule
(Som*nam"bule) n. [F.] A somnambulist.

Somnambulic
(Som*nam"bu*lic) a. Somnambulistic.

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