simsuit.html - {v.}, {informal} To become less angry or excited; become calmer. * /Tom got mad, but soon simmered down./

simsuit.html - {n.}, {informal} A strict person, especially a boss, who makes others work very hard. * /Don't talk on the job; the boss is a real Simon Legree./ * /Everybody avoids the foreman. He acts like a Simon Legree./

simsuit.html - See: PURE AND SIMPLE.

simsuit.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 of or concerning the anthropoid apes.
2 like an ape or monkey (a simian walk).

--n.

an ape or monkey. [L simia ape, perh. f. L simus f. Gk simos flat-nosed]

simsuit.html - adj.
1 like, alike.
2 (often foll. by to) having a resemblance.
3 of the same kind, nature, or amount.
4 Geom. shaped alike.

similarity n. (pl. -ies). similarly adv. [F similaire or med.L similaris f. L similis like]

simsuit.html - n.
1 a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind, as an illustration or ornament (e.g. as brave as a lion).
2 the use of such comparison. [ME f. L, neut. of similis like]