Crossword Dictionary

What's The Definition Of Something?

\Some"thing\, n. 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.
\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.