adv. Now chiefly dial. Also 5 som-, 7 somewayes. [f. as prec., with genitive or plural -s.] = prec. 1.
[a. 1225. Ancr. R., 354. Moni wolde sumes weis þolien vlesches herdschipes.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 9. Hit is tah in wedlac summes weis to þolien as men schal after iheren.]
c. 1440. York Myst., xx. 37. He is wente som wayes wrang.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 2. It might somewayes also be helpful, to the setting right the thoughts of some others.
1895. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in Atlantic Monthly, March, 362/1. The parson ’s got to get his initiation someways.
