Chapter Silverback to Simple of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.

All the enameled race, whose silvery wing
Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.

Pope.

2. Besprinkled or covered with silver.

3. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh.

Silvery iron (Metal.), a peculiar light-gray fine-grained cast iron, usually obtained from clay iron ore.

Silviculture
(Sil"vi*cul`ture) n. [Cf. F. silviculture.] See Sylviculture.

Sima
(Si"ma) n. (Arch.) A cyma.

Simagre
(Sim"a*gre) n. [F. simagrée.] A grimace. [Obs.] Dryden.

Simar
(Si*mar") n. [F. simarre. See Chimere.] A woman's long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf. [Written also cimar, cymar, samare, simare.]

Simarre
(||Si`marre") [F.] See Simar. Sir W. Scott.

Simblot
(Sim"blot) n. [F. simbleau.] The harness of a drawloom.

Simia
(||Sim"i*a) n. [L., an ape; cf. simus flatnosed, snub-nosed, Gr. .] (Zoöl.) A Linnæan genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang- outang.

Simial
(Sim"i*al) a. (Zoöl.) Simian; apelike.

Simian
(Sim"i*an) a. [L. simia an ape.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the family Simiadæ, which, in its widest sense, includes all the Old World apes and monkeys; also, apelike. — n. Any Old World monkey or ape.

Similar
(Sim"i*lar) a. [F. similaire, fr. L. similis like, similar. See Same, a., and cf. Simulate.]

1. Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.

2. Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.

3. Homogenous; uniform. [R.] Boyle.

Similar figures (Geom.), figures which differ from each other only in magnitude, being made up of the same number of like parts similarly situated. — Similar rectilineal figures, such as have their several angles respectively equal, each to each, and their sides about the equal angles proportional. — Similar solids, such as are contained by the same number of similar planes, similarly situated, and having like inclination to one another.

Similar
(Sim"i*lar), n. That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.

Similarity
(Sim`i*lar"i*ty) n.; pl. -ties [Cf. F. similarité.] The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features.

Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Similarly
(Sim"i*lar*ly) adv. In a similar manner.