S — Solver to Somniculous (Part 4 of 6)

1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.

There is something in the wind.

Shak.

The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about.

Pope.

Something attemped, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.

Longfellow.

2. A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.

Something yet of doubt remains.

Milton.

Something of it arises from our infant state.

I. Watts.

3. A person or thing importance.

If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Gal. vi. 3.

Something
(Some"thing), adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance. Shak.

I something fear my father's wrath.

Shak.

We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly.

Burke.

My sense of touch is something coarse.

Tennyson.

It must be done to-night,
And something from the palace.

Shak.

Sometime
(Some"time`) adv.

1. At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?

Shak.

2. At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.

Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish,
A vapor sometime like a bear or lion.

Shak.

3. At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. "Sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer.

Sometime
(Some"time`) a. Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.

Our sometime sister, now our queen.

Shak.

Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized.

Talfourd.

Sometimes
(Some"times`) adv. [Sometime + adverbial ending -s, as in -wards.]

1. Formerly; sometime. [Obs.]

That fair and warlike form
In which the majesty of buried Denmark
Did sometimes march.

Shak.

2. At times; at intervals; not always; now and then; occasionally.

It is good that we sometimes be contradicted.

Jer. Taylor.