Sĭm'i-le, n.

noun

n.; pl. SĬM'Ĭ-LĒS. [Lat., from similis. See SIMILAR.] (Rhet.) A word or phrase by which any thing is likened in one of its aspects to another; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. “A good swift simile, but something currish.” Shak.