Similes

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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