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Show SI ners fimber. with filver - A gritty ftone, with fmall fpangles of'a white f/er . Weodaward on Foffils talcin i Of all th' enamell'd race whofe fi/v'ry win Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the fpring QOnce brighteft fhin'd this child of heat and air . "‘fo,MA'n. n.) [fimarre, Fr. Dunciad A woman' e The ladies drefs'd in rich fimars were feen . Of Florence fattin, flower'd with white and green Dryden ‘?\sI'MxLAR adj. [ fimilaire, Fr. from / ‘Si‘miLary. § milis, Lat. \ 7. Homogeneous ; having one part lik another; uniform a5 metals3 or at leaft to confift but of two or thre Boyle diftin& ingredients, as cinnabar 2. Refembling having refemblance only Jimber in one fluggifh tenour, but fometime boil up higher, and feeth over; the fire of life beIng more than ordinarily kindled upon fome emer gent occafion More againf? Atheifm SUMNEL. #. /. [ fimnellus, low Latin. kind of fweet bread or cake. St MO NIACK niacus, Lat. n. / [ fimoniague, Fr. fimo One who buys or fells pre ferment in the church If the bifhop alleges that the perfon prefented i o unlearned the are to procee trial t Ayliffe Simon1"acar. adj. [from fimoniac.] Guilty of buying or {elling ecclefiaftical preterment SIMILARITY. 2. /. [from fimilar.] Like" nefs; uniformity Arbuthnot Lparts m We WRgimiLE. 7 o [ fimile, Lat] A comparifon by which any thing is illuftrated o aggrandized Their rhimes Full of proteft, of cath, and big compare Want fimiles Shake[peare's Troilus and Creffida Lucentio flipp'd me, like his greyhound Which runs himfelf, and catches for his mafter. ~-A good fwift fimile, but fomething currith. Shak In argument Similes are like fongs in love They much defcribe, they nothing prove. Pricr Poets, to give a loofe to a warm fancy, not onl expatiate in their fimiles, but introduce them to Garth frequently. SIMULITUDE. 7. /. [ fimilitude, Fr. fimilitudo, Lat. Similitude of fubftance would caufe attraction where the body is wholly freed from the motion o gravity; for then lead would draw lead Bacon's Natural Hiftory .Our immortal fouls, while righteous, are by Go - himfelf beautified with the title of his own imag and fimilitude Let us make man in our image Raleigh ma In our fimilitude, and let them rul Over the fith and fowl Milton Similitade to the Deity was not regarded in th things they gave divine worfhip to, and looked o as fymbols of the god they worfhipped. Stilling flect If we compare the piéture of a man, drawn a . the years of feventeen, with that of the fame per fon at the years of threefcore, hardly the leaft trac o fimilitude of one face can be found in the other South Fate fome future bard fhall joi In fad fimilitude of griefs to mine Cond‘emn'd whole years in abfence to deplore Andimage c'harms he muft behold no more 2. Comparifon ; fimile One that by fuggeftio Tied all the kingdom ; Jimony was fair play His own opinion was his law. Shak. Henry VIII Many papers remain in private hands, of whic one is of fimeny 5 and I wifh the world might fee it that it might undeceive. fome patrons, who thin they have difcharged that great truft to God an man, if they take no money for a living, thoug it may be parted with for other ends lefs juftifiable Walton's Life of Bifbop Sanderfon No fimony nor finecure is know There works the bee, no honey for the drone Garth 70S1"MPER. v. # [from yymbelan, Saxon to keep holiday, Skinner He derive Simmer from the fame word, and confirms his etymology by writing it /inIt is perhaps derived from fimmer ber as it may {feem to imitate the dimples o water gently boiling. 1. Likenefs; refemblance Pope ?!utarch, in the firft of his tractates, by fundr fimxlxrude:z fhews us the force of education. Wotton b 'I:\ffog in his fimilitudes, never departed from th too 53 thatis, all his comparifons were taken fro | if . o e country Dryden Boyle Their vital heat and moifture may always no SUMONY. n. /i [ fimonie, Fr. fimonia, Lat. The crime of buying or felling churc preferment Hale's Common Law of England degree of fluidity and fimilarity, or homogeneity o P by degrees, till the fpirit_fimmer or boil a little ~ Add #o your criminals the fimoniacal ladies, wh feduce the facred order into the difficulty of breaking their troth Speciator The blood and chyle are mixed, and by attritio attenuated; by which the mixture acquires a greate Place a veffel in warm fand, increafing the hea The laws of England, relative to thofe matters were the original and exemplar from whence thof fmzilar or parallel laws of Scotland were derived boil gently; to boi with a gentle hifling a fimoniack Minerals appear to the eye to be perfe@ly fimilar SI 'MITAR, 7, f [See CimeTER. ggig(;ked or falcated fiword with a conve \ "b?ffr:mm. v, 7 [a word made proba y l‘(;‘m the found, but written, by Skin To{mile gene rally to {mile foolifhly A mad countenance about her mouth betwee Jimpering and fmiling, her head bowed fomewha down, feemed to languifh with over-much idlenefs Sidney I charge you, O men, for the love you bear t women, as I perceive by your fimpering none o you hate them, to like as much as pleafes them Shakefpeare's As you like it Stars above fimper and fhine As having keys unto thy love, while poor I pine Herbert Let then the fair one beautifully cry Or dreft in fmiles of {weet Cecilia fhine With fimp'ring angels, palms, and harps divine Pope S1'MPER. 7 /. [from the verb. generally a foolifh {mile Smile The wit at his elbow ftared him in the face wit {o bewitching a grin, that the whiftler relaxed hi fibres into a kind of fimper, and at length burf Addifo out into an opea laugh Great Tibbald nods: the proud Parnaflian fneer The confcious fimper, and the jealous leer Pope's Dunciad Mix on his look SUMPLE. adj. [fimplex, Lat. fimple, Fr. 1. Plain ; artlefs ; unfkilled ; undefigning ; fincere ; harmlefs Were it not to fatisfy the minds of the fimple fort of men, thefe nice curiofities are not worth the labour which we beftow to anfwerthem. Hooker They meet upon the wa A fimple hufbandman in garments grey Hubberd's Tale I am a finple woman, much too wea T" oppofe your cunning Shakefp. Henry VIIL O Ethelinda My heart was made to fit and pair with thine Simple and plain, and fraught with artlefs tendernefs Rowe In fimple manners all the fécret lies Be kind and virtuous, you'lLbe bleft and wife Younge 2. Uncompounded; unmingled; fingle only one; plain ; not complicated To make the compound pafs for the rich meta JSimple, is an adulteration or counterfeiting. Bacott Simple philofophically fignifies fingle, but vulgar ly foolith Watts Among fubftances, fome are called fimple, fom compound, whether taken in a philofophical o vulgar fenfe If we take fimple and compound i a vulgar fenfe, then all thofe are fimple fubftance which are generally efteemed uniform in their natures fo every her is calle a fimple and cver metal a mineral; though the chymift perhaps ma find all his feveral elements in each of them Watts's Logick Let Newton, pure intelligence, whom Go To mortals lent, to trace his boundlefs works From laws, fublimely fimple, {peak thy fam In all philofophy Thomfon's Summer 3. Silly ; not wife ; not cunning The fimple believeth every word; but the prudent man looketh well to his going Dick, fimple odes too many fhow y My fervile complaifance to Chloe Prov. Xv Prior Si'MPLE. n. /. [ fimple, French.] A fingl ingredient in a medicine; a drug. I is popularly ufed for an herb Of fimples in thefe groves that grow We'll learn the perfect fkill The nature of each herb to know ‘Which cures, and which can kill Drayton's Cynthia Our fofter nurfe of nature is repofe The which he lacks; that to provoke in him Avre many fimples operative, whofe powe Will clofe the eye of anguith Shak. King Lear He would ope his leathern fcrip And thew me fimples of a thoufand names Telling their ftrange and vigorous faculties. 2Mift What virtue is in this remedy lies in the nake JSimple itfelf, as it comes over from the Indies Templ Around its entries nodding poppies grow And all cool fimples that fweet reft beftow Night from the plants their fleepy virtue drains And pafling fheds it on the filent plains. Dryder Med'cine is mine: what herbs and fimples gro In fields and forefts, all their pew'ss I know. Dryd 7o S1"mpPLE. . n 'To gather fimples As once the foaming boar he chas'd Lafcivious,Circe well the youth furvey'd As fimpling on the flow'ry hills he ftray'd. Garzh S1'MPLENESS. #./. [from fimple. quality of being fimple Th I will hear that play For never any thing can be amifs When fimplenefs and duty tender it Shakefpeare Such perfeét elements may be found in thefe fou known bodies that we call pure ones; for they ar leaft compounded, and approach moft to the fimple nefs of the elements Digby Si'MPLER. z. /. [from fimple. A fim plift; an herbarift Si"meress. » /). [fimpleffée, Fr.] Simplicity word fillinefs ; folly A obfolet Their weeds been not fo nighly were Such fimpleffe mought them fhend They been yclad in purple and pall They reign and rulen over all. Spenfer's Paforal; SI'MPLETON 7 /. [from fimple. A fill mortal 5 a trifler; a foolith fellow low word A countr |
