Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

However

However , adverb

[Sometimes contracted into howe'er.]

1.
In whatever manner, way, or degree.
However yet they me despise and spite. — Spenser
Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault. — Shakespeare
2.
At all events; at least; in any case.
Our chief end is to be freed from all, if it may be, however from the greatest evils. — Tillotson

However , conjunction

Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; still; though; as, I shall not oppose your design; I can not, however, approve of it.
In your excuse your love does little say; You might howe'er have took a better way. — Dryden