2 entries under this word
n. 1. Any thing unknown or undetermined; an indeterminate or unknown event.
There is something in the wind. Shak.
Sense 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. Watts.
Sense 1. In some degree; somewhat. “Something too much of this.” Byron.
We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke.
My old dame Joan is something dunny, and will scarce know how to manage. W. Scott.
My sense of touch is something coarse, But I believe she wept. Tennyson.
Sense 2. At a little distance. [Rare.]
It must be done to-night, and something from the palace. Shak.