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SIMILAR, or Similary, ad/. [similaire , Fr., from 
similis, Lat.] Homogeneous; having one part like an¬ 
other ; uniform.—Minerals appear to the eye to be perfectly 
similar , as metals; or at least .to consist but of two or three 
distinct ingredients, as cinnabar. Boy/e. —Resembling; 
having resemblance.—-'The laws of England, relative to 
those matters, were the original and exemplar from whence 
those similar or parallel laws of Scotland were derived. 
Hale. 
SIMILARITY, s. Likeness ; uniformity.—The blood 
and chyle are mixed, and by attrition attenuated ; by which 
the mixture acquires a greater degree of fluidity and simi¬ 
larity, or homogeneity of parts. Arbutlmot. 
SIMILARLY, adv. With resemblance; without dif¬ 
ference ; in the same manner.—The two pictures of the same 
object are formed upon points -of the retina which are not 
similarly situate. Held, 
SI'MILE, s. A comparison by which any thing is illus¬ 
trated or aggrandized. 
Their rhimes. 
Full of protest, of oath, and big compare, 
Want similes. Shakspeare. 
SIMI'LITUDE, s. [similitudo, Lat.] Likeness; re¬ 
semblance.— Similitude of substance would cause attraction, 
where the body is wholly freed from the motion of gravity; 
for then lead would draw lead. Bacon. —Comparison; 
simile.—Plutarch, in the first of his tractates, by sundry simi¬ 
litudes, shews us the force, of education. Wotton. 
SIMILITUDE, in Arithmetic, Geometry, &c., denotes 
the relation of two things similar to each other, or which are 
only distinguishable by compresence. 
SIMILIT U'DINARY, adj. Denoting resemblance or 
comparison. Unused. —It is similitudinary. Coke. 
SIMILOR is a name given to an alloy of red copper and 
zinc, made in the best proportions to imitate the colour of 
gold. 
SIMLER (Josias), was born at Cappel, in Switzerland, 
in the year 1530. He was minister at Zurich, and a pro¬ 
fessor of the school of that town. He wrote several contro¬ 
versial works against some of the heretical sects, as they 
were esteemed, and denominated by him. He taught ma¬ 
thematics with great reputation, illustrating his lessons by 
various machines of his own invention. Of his writings 
the principal were “ De Helvetiorum Republica,” which 
contained an account of the original constitution of the 
Swiss confederacy; “ Vallesise Descriptio,” being an ac¬ 
count of the Valais, and the adjacent Alps; and an abridge¬ 
ment of the Bibliotheca of Conrad Gesner, with the life of 
that distinguished person. In this last work he has not only 
given a good summary of the original, but has rendered it 
more complete, by the addition of a number of books. He 
died at Zurich in 1576, at the time when he was preparing a 
history of his native country. 
SI'MITAR, s. A crooked or falcated sword with a con¬ 
vex edge. 
SIMLASORE, a town of Hindostan, district of Chuta 
SIMMENTHAL, a valley of Switzerland, in the canton 
of Bern, surrounded by lofty mountains, and traversed by 
the small river Simme. It is 24 miles long, and is divided 
by the river into Upper and Lower Simmenthal, the latter 
sometimes called Wimmis, from its chief town. The soil is 
productive in corn and in pasturage; and the chief occupa¬ 
tions of the inhabitants are rearing cattle, and making cheese 
for sale. 
To SUMMER, v. n. [etymology unknown.'] To boil 
gently; to boil with a gentle hissing.—Place a vessel in- 
warm sand, increasing the heat by degrees, till the spirit 
simmer or boil a little. Boyle. 
SIMMERING, a village of Lower Austria; 2 miles south¬ 
east of Vienna. It has, including its parish, 2500 inhabi. 
tants, and a large cannon foundry. 
SIMMERN, a small town of the Prussian province of the 
Lower Rhine, formerly the chief place of a principality. In 
1689, it was almost entirely destroyed by the French, but 
was repaired after the peace of Ryswick. Population 1500; 
23 miles south-south-west of Coblentz. 
SIMMINGTON, a village of England, in Wiltshire; 1 
mile south-east of Melksham. 
SIMMON’S ISLAND, a small island in the United States, 
on the coast of South Carolina. Lat. 32. 38. N. long. 80. 
10. W. 
SUMNEL, s. [simenel, ancient French; simnellus, low 
Lat.] In our old lexicography, a kind of sweet bread or 
cake; a cracknell.—Sodden bread, which be called simnels 
or cracknells, be verie unwholsome. Bullein. 
SIMOGA, a town of the south of India, province of 
Mysore, district of Bednoor. It is situated on the bank of 
the Tunga or Toom river. It is fortified, but not capable 
of withstanding a regular attack, and has a manufacture of 
cotton cloths. It also contains the temple and convent of 
Kudali Swami, the high priest of a sect of Mahratta Bramins. 
In the year 1790, a battle was fought in the vicinity of this 
place, between one of the armies of Tippoo Sultan and the 
Mahratlas, aided by a British detachment under the command 
of Captain Little, in which the latter were victorious. On 
this occasion the Mahrattas plundered the town, and carried 
off several of the women; they also plundered the convent 
of Kudali Swami, who thereon threatened to excommunicate 
the peshwa, but was appeased by a present of 400,000 
rupees. This unfortunate town was again plundered by the 
Mahrattas in 1798. In the following year, after the capture 
of Seringapatam, it was made over to the young rajah of 
Mysore, and is now recovering its prosperity. Lat. 13. 51. 
N. long. 75. 35. E. 
SIMOIS, a river of Asia Minor, in the Lesser Phrygia, 
the source of which was in mount Ida, and which dis¬ 
charged itself into the Xanthus, or the Scamander, accord¬ 
ing to Pliny. The source of the Simois lies south-west of 
Cotylus; it flows nearly to the west, traverses a space of 
from twelve to fifteen leagues; receives the Andrius above 
Inchavi, and several other rivulets, and discharges itself 
into fire Hellespont, half a league to the north-north-east of 
cape Sigeum. This stream is not now sufficiently consider¬ 
able to deserve the name of river; it is rather a torrent 
swelled by the rains, at the end of the autumn, in winter, and 
in the spring, or by the sudden melting of the snow, which 
falls on mount Ida and Cotylus. 
SIMOJOS1KI, one of the smaller Japanese islands, near 
the south-west coast of Ximo. 
SIMON (Richard), a biblical critic, was born at Dieppe 
in 1638. He received his early education in the college of 
tlie Fathers of the Oratory in that place, and afterwards entered 
into that congregation. Quitting the college in a very short 
time, he pursued the study of theology, and of the Orien¬ 
tal languages, in which he made a great proficiency. He 
entered himself again a member of the Oratory in 1662, 
when his singular turn of thinking, and unaccommodating 
temper, involved him in differences, which had nearly caused 
him to abandon the society for that of the Jesuits. These 
were, after a time, compromised, and he was sent as pro¬ 
fessor of philosophy to one of their colleges. The house 
of the Oratory in Paris possessing a library rich in Oriental 
writings, Simon was engaged to draw up a catalogue of 
them, on which occasion he became known to M. de La- 
moignon, first president of the parliament of Paris. Having 
performed the task, he returned to his professorship, and 
there employed himself in literary labours. In the year 
1670 he was ordained priest, and in the same year he gave 
a proof of the liberality of his mind, by undertaking the 
defence of the Jews at Metz, who had been accused of 
sacrificing the child of Christian parents. In 1674 he pub¬ 
lished, under the name of Richard Simeon, “ A Treatise on 
the Ceremonies and Customs at present preserved among 
the Jews, translated from the Italian of Leo of Modena, 
with a Supplement respecting the Sects of the Caraites and 
Samaritans,’ 3 
