Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.