I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical assistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— some indeterminate or unspecified thing
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Macmillan
— used for referring to a thing, idea, fact etc when you do not know or say exactly what it is
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Usage
43 uses of ‘something’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle