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.