adv. Forms: 5–6 somwhether, 6 -whyther, 7– somewhither. [f. SOME a.1 + WHITHER adv.]
1. In some direction.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., III. xvii. (W. de W.), 61. The syghte is made by lynes that passyth not awaye forth ryght, but blenchyth somwhether asyde of the strayte waye.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., X. i. (1872), II. 575. Twilight, with here and there a transient spark falling somewhither in it.
1905. Daily News, 2 May, 6. But the time comes when the fashion must change somewhither.
2. To some place, = SOMEWHERE adv. 2.
1530. Palsgr., 823/1. Som whyther, quelque part.
c. 1560[?]. Trag. Rich. II. (1870), 40. Prethee sweete king letts ride somwhether and it be but to showe ourselues.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., IV. i. 11. Some whether would she haue thee goe with her.
c. 1645. Tullie, Siege of Carlisle (1840), 13. Bidding her convey the money somewhither.
1779. Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 290. I found several persons who … seemed to imagine me bound some whither.
1845. Carlyle, Cromwell (1857), II. 71. The poor young King is much at a loss;—must go somewhither.
1877. W. Black, Green Past., xxxiv. Like ghosts waiting for Charon to take them somewhither.
† b. Somewhither else, to some other place; elsewhere. Obs.
1623. in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. I. III. 125. [They] would faine hope that he was gone somewhither else then to Spaine.
1658. Earl Monm., trans. Paruta’s Wars Cyprus, 24. The latter … endeavoured, that the Fleet might go somewhither else.
1700. Bp. Lloyd, in Aubrey, Brief Lives (1813), I. 102. We must think of removing you some whither else where you may have a subsistence.
