In some degree: to some extent; somewhat: as. I am some better; it is some cold.
As; so; ever: used indefinitely after certain adverbs and pronouns, like so, soever.
A suffix used to form adjectives from nouns or adjectives, as mettlesome, blithesome, lonesome, gladsome, gamesome, gruesome, quarrelsome, toothsome, troublesome, wholesome, winsome.
A; a certain; one: noting a person or thing indefinitely, either as unknown or as unspecified.
In this sense often fallowed by a correlative other or another.
A certain indefinite or indeterminate quantity or part of; more or less: often so used as to denote a small quantity or a deficiency: as, bring some water; eat some bread.
In logic, at least one, perhaps all; but a few logicians sometimes employ a semidefinite some which implies a part, but not all.
A certain indefinite or indeterminate number of: used before plural substantives: as, some years ago.
Hence A certain number of, stated approximately: in a quasi-adverbial use before a numeral or other word of number: as, a place some seventy miles distant; some four or five of us will be there.
A certain person; one.
A certain quantity, part, or number, as distinguished from the rest: as, some of them are dead; we ate some of our provisions, and gave away the rest.
In this sense some is very commonly repeated, some … some (or, formerly, other some, as in Acts xvii. 18) meaning ‘a number … others,’ or ‘the rest.’
The plural some is occasionally used in the possessive.
Some, as originally used partitively with numbers (AS. feówra sum, one of four, etc.), has come to be an apparent distributive suffix, as in foursome, sevensome.