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1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   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.
      [1913 Webster]
            A good swift simile, but something currish. --Shak.
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