n. 1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is something in the wind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Something attemped, something done,
Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little. [ 1913 Webster ]

Something yet of doubt remains. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Something of it arises from our infant state. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person or thing importance. [ 1913 Webster ]

If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Gal. vi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I something fear my father's wrath. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

It must be done to-night,
And something from the palace. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]