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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.
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There is something in the wind. --Shak.
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The whole world has something to do, something to
talk of, something to wish for, and something to be
employed about. --Pope.
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Something attemped, something done,
Has earned a night's repose. --Longfellow.
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2. A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or
degree; a little.
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Something yet of doubt remains. --Milton.
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Something of it arises from our infant state. --I.
Watts.
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3. A person or thing importance.
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If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he
is nothing, he deceiveth himself. --Gal. vi. 3.
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Something \Some"thing\, adv.
In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
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I something fear my father's wrath. --Shak.
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We have something fairer play than a reasoner could
have expected formerly. --Burke.
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My sense of touch is something coarse. --Tennyson.
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It must be done to-night,
And something from the palace. --Shak.
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