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   Simile , 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.
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   A good swift simile, but something currish.
   Shak.
   
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