Some"when`, adv. At some indefinite time. [R.]

Some"where` (?), adv. In some place unknown or not specified; in one

place or another. "Somewhere nigh at hand." Milton.

Some"while` (?), adv. Once; for a time.

Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile There crept in wolves,

full of fraud and guile.

Spenser.

Some"whith`er (?), adv. To some indeterminate place; to some place or

other.

Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither.

Barrow.

So"mite (s"mt), n. [Gr. sw^ma body.] (Anat. & Zoöl.) One of the actual

or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or

vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic (#), a.

||Som`meil" (?), n. [F.] Slumber; sleep.

Som"mer*set (?), n. See Somersault.

Som*nam"bu*lar (?), a. Of or pertaining to somnambulism;

somnambulistic. Mrs. Browning.

Som*nam"bu*late (?), v. i. & t. To walk when asleep.

Som*nam`bu*la"tion (?), n. [L. somnus sleep + ambulatio a walking

about, from ambulare to walk. See Somnolent, Amble.] The act of walking

in sleep.

Som*nam"bu*la`tor (?), n. A somnambulist.

Som*nam"bule (?), n. [F.] A somnambulist.

Som*nam"bu*lic (?), a. Somnambulistic.

Som*nam"bu*lism (?), n. [Cf. F. somnambulisme. See Somnambulation.] A

condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep

performs actions appropriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in

which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake;

noctambulism.

Som*nam"bu*list (?), n. A person who is subject to somnambulism; one

who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.

Som*nam`bu*lis"tic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or

somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a

somnambulist.

Whether this was an intentional and waking departure, or a

somnambulistic leave-taking and walking in her sleep, may remain a

subject of contention.

Dickens.

Som"ne (?), v. t. To summon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Som"ner (?), n. A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical

court. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Som"ni*al (?), a. [L. somnialis dream bringing, fr. somnium dream, fr.

somnus sleep.] Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.

The somnial magic superinduced on, without suspending, the active

powers of the mind.

Coleridge.

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