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.
Sil"vi*cul`ture (?), n. [Cf. F. silviculture.] See Sylviculture.
Si"ma (?), n. (Arch.) A cyma.
Sim"a*gre (?), n. [F. simagrée.] A grimace. [Obs.] Dryden.
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.]
||Si`marre" (?). [F.] See Simar. Sir W. Scott.
Sim"blot (?), n. [F. simbleau.] The harness of a drawloom.
||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.
Sim"i*al (?), a. (Zoöl.) Simian; apelike.
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.
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.