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SO'METHING, adv. In some degree.—The pain went 
away upon it; but he was something discouraged by a new 
pain falling some days after upon his elbow, on the other 
side. Temple. 
SOMETIME, adv. Once; formerly. 
What art thou that usurp’st this time of night. 
Together with that fair and warlike form, 
In which the majesty of buried Denmark 
Did sometime march ? Skakspeare. 
At one time or other hereafter. 
SO'METIMES, adv. Not never; now and then; at one 
time or other.—It is good that we sometimes be contradicted, 
and that we always bear it well; for perfect peace cannot be 
had in this world. Bp.Taylor. —At onetime: opposed to 
sometimes, or to another time. —He writes not always of a 
piece, but sometimes mixes trivial things with those of 
greater moment: sometimes also, though not often, he runs 
riot, and knows not when he has said enough. Dri/den. 
SO'MEWHAT, s. Something; not nothing, though it 
be uncertain what. 
Upon the sea somewhat methought did rise, 
Like blueish mists. Dryden. 
More or less.—These salts have somewhat of a nitrous 
taste, but mixt with a smatch of vitriolic. Grew. —Part 
greater or less.— Somewhat of his good sense will suffer in 
this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will 
be lost. Dryden. 
SO'MEWHAT, adv. In some degree.—Holding of the 
breath doth help somewhat to cease the hiccough. Bacon. 
SO'MEWHERE, adv. In one place or other; not no¬ 
where.—Compressing two prisms hard together, that their 
sides, which by chance were a very little convex, might 
somewhere touch one another, I found the place in which 
they touched to become absolutely transparent, as if they had 
there been one continued piece of glass. Newton. 
SO'MEWHILE, s. [Sax. j'om-hjiyle.] Once; for a 
time. Out of use. 
Though under colour of the shepherds somewhile, 
There crept in wolves full of fraud and guile, 
That often devoured their own sheep. 
And often the shepherd that did ’em keep. Spenser. 
SOMINO, a village of Bambarra, in Central Africa, situ¬ 
ated on the Niger; 80 miles north-west of Yamina. 
SOMLYO, a small town of Transylvania, and the chief 
place of the county of Kraszna; 42 miles north-west of 
Clausenburg. 
SOMMA, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the Milanese, 
near where the Ticino issues from the Lago Maggiore; 25 
miles north-west of Milan. 
SOMMA, a town of Italy, situated at the foot of Vesuvius. 
It has a castle, and contains 6800 inhabitants. Wine of 
good quality is made in the neighbourhood; 12 miles east 
of Naples. 
SOMMA, Monte, a mountain of Italy, in the Ecclesi¬ 
astical State, two miles from Spoleto. The mountain, 
which is about 5000 feet in height, is fertile, and shaded 
with olives and forest trees. 
SOMMARIVA DEL BOSCO, a town of Italy, in Pied¬ 
mont, province of Alba, near the Naviglio. Population 
5100 ; 5 miles south east of Carmagnola. 
SOMMARIVA DI PERNO, a small town of Piedmont, 
near Sommariva del Bosco. 
SOMME, a river of France, which rises in the depart¬ 
ment of the Aisne; 6 miles north-east of St. Quentin. It 
has a westward course of about 120 miles in length, and falls 
into the English channel between Crotoy and St. Vallery. 
It is navigable to Bray; 10 miles above Amiens, and passes 
both that town and Abbeville. 
SOMME, a department in the north of France, com¬ 
prising the western part of Picardy, and bounded on the 
west by the English channel, on the north by the depart¬ 
ment of the Pas de Calais. Its area is about 2380 square 
miles; its population 495,000, of whom a small proportion 
are Protestants. This is, on the whole, one of the best of 
the French departments. The coast is low and sandy, but 
the interior consists of a fertile loam, generally level, except 
towards the east, where the prolongation of a part of the 
Ardennes produces considerable elevations, and the com 
culture gives place to plantations and pasture. Throughout 
the rest, tillage and the breeding of cattle are followed up 
on the plan adopted in Flanders ; and stall feeding, which is 
little known, even in Normandy, is practised , on a large 
scale. The raising of green crops is also favoured by the 
climate, which is as moist, and as subject to sudden varia¬ 
tions as in Britain. Besides corn, pasturage, fruit and vege¬ 
tables, a large quantity of coleseed, rapeseed and oleaginous 
grains, are raised, as well as flax and hemp. The manufac¬ 
tures are numerous, comprising woollens, coarse and fine 
linens, lawns, cambrics, soap, leather and hardware. This 
department is divided into the five arrondissemenls of Amiens 
(the capital), Abbeville, Doulens, Peronue and Mont- 
didier. 
SOMMEANY, the principal sea-port of Lus, in the 
eastern part of the Persian province of Mekran. It is situ¬ 
ated on an elevated bank at the mouth of the river Pooralee, 
which forms a bar about a mile from the town, of three 
fathoms deep at low water, and boats can anchor close to 
the shore. The place is inconsiderable, and the inhabitants, 
with the exception of a few Hindoo merchants, live chiefly 
by fishing. Fresh water is procured by digging in the 
sand; and it is necessary that the well be immediately 
filled up; for if suffered to remain open, the water becomes 
salt. 
SOMMEE, a town of Hindostan, province of Gujerat, 
district of Werrear, belonging to the nabob of Radunpore. 
It is large, and inclosed with a wall, situated on an extensive 
plain, abounding with antelopes, but in the rainy season is 
frequently under water. Latitude not ascertained. 
SOMMELSDYK, a town of the Netherlands, in South 
Holland, on the island of Overflakee, with 1600 inhabitants: 
20 miles south-east of Rotterdam. 
SOMERDA, a town of Prussian Saxony, in the govern¬ 
ment of Erfurt, near the Unstrut, with 1900 inhabitants; 
15 miles north-north-west of Weimar. 
SOMMEREIN, or Szamarja, a town of Hungary, in 
the isle of Schutt. Population 2700; 11 miles south-east of 
Presburg. Lat. 48. 1. 30. N. long. 17. 17. 15. E. 
SOMMERFELD, a town of the Prussian states, in Lower 
Lusatia, on the Leipa. Population 1800; 84 miles south¬ 
east of Berlin. 
SOMMERGEM, or Somerghem, a town of the Nether¬ 
lands, in the province of East Flanders. Population 6400. 
It has manufactures of lace ; 8 miles north-west of Ghent. 
SOMMERHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in Bavarian 
Franconia. Population 1000; 4 miles south of Wurzburg. 
SOMMERING, a lofty mountain of Germany, which 
separates Styria from Lower Austria. Height 5000 feet. 
SOMMEVOIR, a town of France, department of the 
Upper Marne, on the river Lavivoir, with 1200 inhabitants; 
9 miles south-west of Vassy. 
SOMMIERES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Gard, on the Vidourle. Population 3400. It has some 
woollen manufactures; 22 miles south of Potiers. 
SOMNAMBULISM, in Medicine, from somnus , sleep, 
and amhu/o, I walk; sometimes also called noctambulism , 
or night-walking. See Pathology. 
SOMNA'MBULIST, s. [somnus and ambulo, Lat.] One 
who walks in his sleep.—The soinnambulist directs himself 
with unerring certainty through the most intricate windings 
and over the most dangerous precipices; and, without any 
apparent assistance from the organs of sense, has been known 
to read, write and compose. Bp. Porteus.. 
SO'MNER, s. [See Summoner.] One who cites or 
summons.—We are desirous to redress such abuses and 
aggrievances as are said to grow by somners or apparitors. 
Const, and Canon's Ecc/es. 
SOMNER (William), an able antiquary, was born at 
Canterbury, in the year 1606. He received a good com¬ 
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