pron. (and sb.). [f. SOME a.1 2 + ONE 24.] Some person, somebody.
α. c. 1305. in E. E. P. (1862), 114. To a womman he com … þat heo scholde him to sum on teche.
1382. Wyclif, Mark ix. 37. We syȝen sum oon for to caste out fendis in thi name.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, III. xvii. (1554), 90. Sum one, Parcas, shal them therof discharge.
1535. Coverdale, Eccles. iv. 14. Some one commeth out of preson, & is made a kynge: & another [etc.].
a. 1586. Answ. to Cartwright, 14. It is not peculiar to some one, or to some fewe alone.
1667. Milton, P. L., VI. 503. Some one intent on mischief.
1691. J. Wilson, Belphegor, IV. ii. Peradventure your own, or some ones else; who knows.
1706. Stevens, Span. Dict., I. Algúno, some body or some one.
1820. Byron, Juan, IV. cx. As some one somewhere sings about the sky.
1858. M. Arnold, Merope, 876. To the guest-chamber lead him, some one!
1872. Ruskin, Fors Clav., xxii. 17. The word ‘Squire’ means a Carver, properly a carver at some one else’s feast.
β. 1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xi. ‘I have set my heart on Rawdon running away with someone.’ ‘A rich someone, or a poor someone?’
1872. Calverley, Fly Leaves (1903), 73. And I think thou wearest Someone-else’s hair.
1896. Baden-Powell, Matabele Campaign, vii. (1897), 183. As though someone had struck me with a hammer.
