Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SOM'ER-SAULT, or SOM'ER-SET, n. [Sp. sobresalir, to exceed in highth; to leap over; sobresaltar, to surprise; It. soprassalire, to attack unexpectedly; soprassalto, an overleap; 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. – Donne.

SOME-THING, n. [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 a 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. – Milton. Still from his little he could something spare, / To feed the hungry and to clothe the bare. – Harte. Something of it arises from our infant state. – Watts.
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 to-night, and something from the palace. – Shak.
6. Something is used adverbially for in some degree; as, he was something discouraged; but the use is not elegant. – Temple.

SOME-TIME, adv. [some and time.]

1. Once; formerly. That fair and warlike form, / In which the majesty of buried Denmark / Did sometime march. – Shak.
2. At one time or other hereafter. [Sometime is really a compound noun, and at is understood before it; at some time.]

SOME-TIMES, adv. [some and times.]

1. At times; at intervals; not always; now and then. We are sometimes indisposed, sometimes occupied, sometimes at leisure; that is, at some times. It is good that we be sometimes contradicted. – Taylor.
2. At one time; opposed to another time.

SOME-WHAT, 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.

SOME-WHAT, n. [some and what.]

1. Something, though uncertain what. – Atterbury.
2. More or less; a certain quantity or degree, indeterminate. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. – Grew.
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. – Dryden.

SOME-WHERE, adv. [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.

SOME-WHILE, adv. [some and while.]

Once; for a time. [Obs.] – Spenser.

SOME-WHITH-ER, adv.

To some indeterminate place. – Johnson.

SOM'MITE, n.

Nepheline; a mineral which occurs in small crystals and crystaline grains in the lava of mount Somma on Vesuvius. – Haüy.

SOM-NAM-BU-LA'TION, n. [L. somnus, sleep, and ambulo, to walk.]

The act of walking in sleep. Beddoes.

SOM-NAM'BU-LIC, a.

Walking in sleep; pertaining to somnambulism.

SOM-NAM'BU-LISM, n. [supra.]

The act or practice of walking in sleep. – Beddoes. Darwin.

SOM-NAM'BU-LIST, n.

A person who walks in his sleep. – Beddoes. Porteus.

SOM'NER, n.

for Summoner. [Not in use.]

SOM-NIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. somnifer; somnus, sleep, and fero, to bring; Fr. somnifère; It. and Sp. somnifero.]

Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; as, a somniferous potion. – Walton.

SOM-NIF'IC, a. [L. somnus, sleep, and facio, to make.]

Causing sleep; tending to induce sleep.

SOM-NIL'O-QUIST, n.

One who talks in his sleep.

SOM-NIL'O-QUOUS, a.

Apt to talk in sleep.

SOM-NIL'O-QUY, or SOM-NIL'O-QUISM, n. [L. somnus and loquor.]

A talking or speaking in sleep. – Coleridge.

SOM-NIL'O-QUY, n.

The talking of one in a state of somnipathy.

SOM-NIP'A-THIST, n.

A person in a state of somnipathy.

SOM-NIP'A-THY, n. [L. somnus, and Gr. παθος.]

Sleep from sympathy; or the process of pathetizing. – Sunderland.

SOM'NO-LENCE, or SOM'NO-LEN-CY, n. [Low L. somnolentia; from somnus, sleep.]

Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep. – Gower.

SOM'NO-LENT, a.

Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. – Bullokar.