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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Simile \Simi"*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.
A good swift simile, but something currish. --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
simile
n : a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between
things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or
`as')
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