somedeal
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of somedeal
before 900; Middle English somdel, Old English sume dǣle, dative of sum dǣl some portion. See some, deal 1
Example Sentences
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In Ethiopia all the rivers and all the waters be trouble, and they be somedeal salt for the great heat that is there.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
The voice is hoarse, swelling groweth in the body, and many small botches and whelks hard and round, in the legs and in the utter parts; feeling is somedeal taken away.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert
For of fire he taketh red colour in the overmost part, and of earth green in the nethermost, and of the air a manner of brown colour, and of water somedeal blue in the middle.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert
And when men have gathered it, then cometh the white that is somedeal less than the black.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
And in speech lispit he somedeal; But that set him richt wonder weel.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David
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