Similary
(Sim"i*lar*y) a. Similar. [Obs.]
Rhyming cadences of similarly words.
South. Similative
(Sim"i*la*tive) a. Implying or indicating likeness or resemblance. [R.]
In similative or instrumental relation to a pa. pple. [past participle], as almond-leaved, -scented, etc.
New English Dict. Simile
(Sim"i*le) n.; pl. Similes [L., from similis. See Similar.] (Rhet.) A word or phrase by which
anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative
comparison.
A good swift simile, but something currish.
Shak. Similiter
(||Si*mil"i*ter) n. [L., in like manner.] (Law) The technical name of the form by which either
party, in pleading, accepts the issue tendered by his opponent; — called sometimes a joinder in issue.
Similitude
(Si*mil"i*tude) n. [F. similitude, L. similitudo, from similis similar. See Similar.]
1. The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance.
Chaucer.
Let us make now man in our image, man
In our similitude.
Milton.
If fate some future bard shall join
In sad similitude of griefs to mine.
Pope. 2. The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a
simile.
Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from
the country.
Dryden. 3. That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
Man should wed his similitude.
Chaucer. Similitudinary
(Si*mil`i*tu"di*na*ry) a. Involving or expressing similitude. [Obs.] Coke.
Similize
(Sim"i*lize) v. t. To liken; to compare; as, to similize a person, thing, or act. Lowell.
Similor
(Sim"i*lor) n. [F., fr. L. similus similar + F. or gold, L. aurum. Cf. Semilor.] An alloy of copper
and zinc, resembling brass, but of a golden color. Ure.
Simious
(Sim"i*ous) a.[L. simia an ape.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Simiæ; monkeylike.
That strange simious, schoolboy passion of giving pain to others.
Sydney Smith. Simitar
(Sim"i*tar) n. See Scimiter.
Simmer
(Sim"mer) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Simmered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Simmering.] [Prov. E. also simper; —
an onomatopoetic word.] To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil.
I simmer as liquor doth on the fire before it beginneth to boil.
Palsgrave. Simmer
(Sim"mer), v. t. To cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost or just to the boiling
point.
