\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.
         There is something in the wind.       --Shak.
         The whole world has something to do, something to
         talk of, something to wish for, and something to be
         employed about.                       --Pope.
         Something attemped, something done, Has earned a
         night's repose.                       --Longfellow.
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. --I.
                                               Watts.
3. A person or thing importance.
         If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he
         is nothing, he deceiveth himself.     --Gal. vi. 3.

\Some"thing\, adv.
In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
--Shak.
      I something fear my father's wrath.      --Shak.
      We have something fairer play than a reasoner could
      have expected formerly.                  --Burke.
      My sense of touch is something coarse.   --Tennyson.
      It must be done to-night, And something from the
      palace.                                  --Shak.