SOM 
to the foot of Mount Zagros, and contains about 6000 inha¬ 
bitants; 54 miles east of Kerkook. 
SOMA, a small river of the Caraccas, in the province of 
Cumana, which enters the Cuyuni by the north side. 
SOMALPET, a town of Hindostan, province of Berar, 
district of Nandere, belonging to the Nizam. Lat. 19. 
49. N. long. 78. E. 
SOMASCA, a small town of Austrian Italy; 9 miles 
north-west of Bergamo. 
SOMA'TICAL, or Soma'tic, adj. [< ra [ Aa . rmo ^, Gr.] 
Corporeal; belonging to the body. Scott . 
SO'MATIST, 5 . [from o-uga, Gr. the body.] One 
who denies all spiritual substances. Unused. 
SOMATO'LOGY, s. [papa and Xeya, Gr.] The doc¬ 
trine of bodies. 
SOMAULIES, or Samaulies, a people of Africa, inha¬ 
biting the territory that extends westwards from Cape Guarda- 
fui, opposite to the southern coast of Arabia. By Mr. Bruce 
and others they have been represented as a savage race, with 
whom it would be dangerous to have any connection; but 
Lord Valentia and Mr. Salt found them a peacable and in¬ 
offensive, as well as industrious and commercial race. This 
last quality is proved by the extent of their inland trade, 
their great fairs, and extensive export trade carried on in their 
own vessels. They have a kind of navigation act, by which 
they exclude the Arab vessels from their ports, and bring the 
produce of their country either to Aden or Mocha, in small 
vessels called dows. These commodities are of considerable 
value, as their country is the most productive in the world in 
gums, myrrh, and frankincense; and the fame of Arabia for 
these valuable aromatics is derived entirely from its being the 
channel by which they are conveyed to other parts of the 
world. In their persons, the Somaulies are neither negroes nor 
Arabs. Their noses are not fiat, though their hair is woolly, 
drawn out into points in every direction. They are finely 
limbed, with a very dark skin, and beautifully white teeth. 
The expression of their countenance is neither fierce nor un- 
pleasing. The principal place in their country is Berbera, 
which is the seat of a great annual fair, and from 
whence their caravans penetrate deep into the interior of 
Africa. 
SOMBAR, a village of Irak, in Persia; 114 miles south¬ 
west of Hamadan. 
SOMBERNON, a town of France, in Burgundy. In 
the neighbourhood are mines of coal. Population 800; 16 
miles west of Dijon. 
SOMBORNE, King’s, a parish of England, in South- 
amptonshire; 3 miles south-by-west of Stockbridge. Popu- 
tion 849. 
SOMBORNE, Little, a hamlet in the above county, 
about a mile distant from King’s Sombome. 
SO'MBRE, or Sombrous, adj. [sombre, Fr.] Dark; 
gloomy. 
In Hagley you were seen 
With bloodshed eyes and sombre mien. Grainger. 
A sombrous rankness of expression. Warburton. 
SOMBREF, a village of the Netherlands, in the pro¬ 
vince of Namur, with 1000 inhabitants; 10 miles north¬ 
west of Namur. 
SOMBRERE CHANNEL, a channel between the Nico¬ 
bar islands. Lat. 7. 32. to 7. 50. N. long. 94. E. 
SOMBRERETE, a small town of Mexico, in the inten¬ 
dancy of Zacatecas, and about 80 miles north-west of Zaca¬ 
tecas. It is in the centre of the mining district, and 
was formerly one of the richest stations in the whole 
province. 
SOMBRERO, a river of Benin, in Western Africa, which 
falls into the sea, about 20 miles to the westward of the river 
of New Calabar. Lat. 4. 40. N. long. 5. 52. E. 
SOMBRERO, a rock in the sea of Mindoro. Lat. 10. 45. 
N. long 121. 27. E. 
SOMBRERO, a small island in the West Indies, about 3 
miles long, and as many broad, entirely desert. It was on 
this island that the unfortunate seaman Jeffery was so inhu- 
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manly left by order of his captain, for the offence of having 
tapped a barrel of beer when the water of his Britannic ma¬ 
jesty's brig ran short, and the crew were put on allowance. 
After eight days suffering from thirst and hunger, supporting 
life by a few limpets that he picked up on the shore, and a 
little rain water he found in the crevices of the rocks, he was 
providentially delivered from his distressing situation by the 
schooner Adam, of Marble Head, John Dennis, which 
touched at the isle, took him off, and landed him in the 
county of Essex. Sombrero is in lat. 18. 37. 40. N. long. 
63. 28. 30. W. 
SOMBRERO, a settlement of the Caraccas, in the pro¬ 
vince of Venezuela. Population 2182 Spaniards, Indians, 
mulattoes, &c.—There is another settlement of the same 
name in the same province, and on the shore of the river 
Guarico. 
SOMBRERO, a river of South America, in the province 
Buenos Ayres, which runs west, and enters the Plata near 
the city of Corrientes. 
SOME. A termination of many adjectives, which denote 
quality or property of any thing. It is generally joined 
with a substantive: as gamesome. [saam , Dutch.] 
SOME, adj. [pom, pum, Saxon; sums. Gothic; sum, 
Germ, som, Danish; som, sommig, Dutch.] More or less, 
noting an indeterminate quantity.—We landed some hun¬ 
dred men, where we found some fresh water. Ralegh.— 
More or fewer, noting an indeterminate number.—First go 
with me some few of you, and see the place and how it may 
be made convenient for you; and then send for your sick. 
Bacon. —Certain persons. Some is often used absolutely for 
some people; part. 
Some to the shores do fly, 
Some to the woods, or whither fear advis’d; 
But running from, all to destruction hye. Daniel. 
Some is opposed to some, or to others.— It may be that 
the queen’s treasure, in so great occasions of disbursements, 
is not always so ready; but being paid as it is, now some, 
and then some, it is no great impoverishment to her coffers. 
Spenser. —It is added to a number, to show that the number 
is uncertain and conjectural.—Being encountered with a 
strong storm some eight leagues to the westward of Sicily, 
I held it the office of a commander to make a port. Ralegh. 
—One; any without determining which.—The pilot of some 
small nightfounder’d skiff. Milton. 
SO'MEBODY, s. One; not nobody; a person indis¬ 
criminate and undetermined.—Jesus said, Somebody hath 
touched me; for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. 
St. Luke .—O that Sir John were come, he would make this 
a bloody day to somebody. Shakspeare. —A person of 
consideration.—Theudas rose up, boasting himself to be 
somebody. Acts. 
SOMEBODY KNOWS WHAT, a name given to the 
extremity of the arm of Dusky bay, which Captain Cook 
called Nobody Knows What. This name was given by 
Captain Vancouver, who examined and found two inlets, or 
at least a large branch, divided by a ridge of land in its 
whole length. 
SO'MEDEAL, adv. [pumbeal, Saxon.] In some de¬ 
gree. Obsolete. 
Silker now I see thou speak’st of spite. 
All for thou lackest somedele their delight. Spenser. 
SOMEGILL, a small river of Wales, in Radnorshire, 
which runs into the Lug, a little below Presteign. 
SO'MEHOW, ado. One way or other; I know not 
how.—The vesicular cells may be for receiving the arterial 
and nervous juices, that by their action upon one another 
they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length 
of every fibril. Cheyne. 
SOMERBY, a parish of England, in Leicestershire ; 6 
miles south by-east of Melton Mowbray. 
SOMERBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 44 
miles south-east of Grantham.—Also a parish in the same 
county, 4 miles east of Glandford Bridge. 
SOMERCOATS, North and South, two adjoining 
parishes 
