In one way or another; in a way not yet known or designated; by some means
(usex)
(rfdate)(w)
By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length.
(rfdate) Sir (w)
Although youngest of the familly, he has somehow or other got the entire management of all the others.
(RQ:EHough PrqsPrc)
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.