Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

--Shak.

      The number slain on the rebel's part were some two
      thousand.                                   --Bacon.

   5. Considerable in number or quality. ``Bore us some leagues
      to sea.'' --Shak.

            On its outer point, some miles away. The lighthouse
            lifts its massive masonry.            --Longfellow.

   6. Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinct from
      other or others; as, some men believe one thing, and
      others another.

            Some [seeds] fell among thorns; . . . but other fell
            into good ground.                     --Matt. xiii.
                                                  7, 8.

   7. A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed
      sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions.

            Your edicts some reclaim from sins, But most your
            life and blest example wins.          --Dryden.

   {All and some}, one and all. See under {All}, adv. [Obs.]

   Note: The illiterate in the United States and Scotland often
         use some as an adverb, instead of somewhat, or an
         equivalent expression; as, I am some tired; he is some
         better; it rains some, etc.

   {Some . . . some}, one part . . . another part; these . . .
      those; -- used distributively.

            Some to the shores do fly, Some to the woods, or
            whither fear advised.                 --Daniel.

   Note: Formerly used also of single persons or things: this
         one . . . that one; one . . . another.

               Some in his bed, some in the deep sea. --Chaucer.



   Note: In the ancient phrases, all too dear, all too much, all
         so long, etc., this word retains its appropriate sense
         or becomes intensive.

   2. Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.) [Obs. or
      Poet.]

            All as his straying flock he fed.     --Spenser.

            A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined.
                                                  --Gay.

   {All to}, or {All-to}. In such phrases as ``all to rent,''
      ``all to break,'' ``all-to frozen,'' etc., which are of
      frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to
      have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb,
      equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether.
      But the sense of entireness lies wholly in the word all
      (as it does in ``all forlorn,'' and similar expressions),
      and the to properly belongs to the following word, being a
      kind of intensive prefix (orig. meaning asunder and
      answering to the LG. ter-, HG. zer-). It is frequently to
      be met with in old books, used without the all. Thus
      Wyclif says, ``The vail of the temple was to rent:'' and
      of Judas, ``He was hanged and to-burst the middle:'' i.
      e., burst in two, or asunder.

   {All along}. See under {Along}.

   {All and some}, individually and collectively, one and all.
      [Obs.] ``Displeased all and some.'' --Fairfax.

   {All but}.
      (a) Scarcely; not even. [Obs.] --Shak.
      (b) Almost; nearly. ``The fine arts were all but
          proscribed.'' --Macaulay.

   {All hollow}, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all
      hollow. [Low]

   {All one}, the same thing in effect; that is, wholly the same
      thing.

   {All over}, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as,
      she is her mother all over. [Colloq.]

   {All the better}, wholly the better; that is, better by the
      whole difference.

   {All the same}, nevertheless. ``There they [certain
      phenomena] remain rooted all the same, whether we
      recognize them or not.'' --J. C. Shairp. ``But Rugby is a
      very nice place all the same.'' --T. Arnold. -- See also
      under {All}, n.