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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Simile

· Sim·i·le · IPA /ˈsɪməli/
01 n. 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 co…
pl. Similes ((#))
  1. 1.
    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.(Rhet.)
    “A good swift simile, but something currish.” Shak.