1. somerset - Noun
2. somerset - Verb
3. Somerset - Proper noun
A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
Source: Webster's dictionarySomerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be." ... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock. Norman Mailer
We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House. F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
Somerset Maugham refers more than once to the pleasure of the Malayan morning - papaya and eggs and bacon and strong British tea taken while the air is cool and the sun awaits its sudden thrust into the green land.... Anthony Burgess
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. Roald Dahl
Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it. Anthony Stewart Head
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes. Wilbur Smith