'Similes' definitions:
Definition of 'Similes'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- A good swift simile, but something currish. --Shak. [1913 Webster]