Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SIM'I-LOR, n.

A name given to an alloy of red copper an zink, made in the best proportions to imitate silver and gold. – Encyc.

SIM-I-TAR, n. [See CIMETER.]

SIM'MER, v.i. [Gr. ζυμη, ζυμοω, to ferment.]

To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing. Simmering is incipient ebullition, when little bubbles are formed on the edge of the liquor next to the vessel. These are occasioned by the escape of heat and vapor.

SIM'MER-ING, ppr.

Boiling gently.

SIM'NEL, n. [Dan. simle; Sw. simla; G. semmel.]

A kind of sweet cake; a bun.

SI-MO'NI-AC, n. [Fr. simoniaque. See Simony.]

One who buys or sells preferment in the church. – Ayliffe.

SI-MO-NI'AC-AL, a.

1. Guilty of simony. – Spectator.
2. Consisting in simony, or the crime of buying or ecclesiastical preferment; as, a simoniacal presentation.

SI-MO-NI'AC-AL-LY, adv.

With the guilt or offense of simony.

SI-MO'NI-ANS, n. [plur.]

The followers of Simon Magus.

SI-MO'NI-OUS, a.

Partaking of simony; given to simony. – Milton.

SIM'ON-Y, n. [from Simon Magus, who wished to purchase the power of conferring the Holy Spirit. Acts viii.]

The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; or the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward. By stat. 31 Elizabeth, c. vi. severe penalties are enacted against this crime.

SI-MOOM', n.

A hot, suffocating wind, that blows occasionally in Africa and Arabia, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains. Its approach is indicated by a redness in the air, and its fatal effects are to be avoided by falling on the face and holding the breath. – Encyc.

SI'MOUS, a. [L. simo, one with a flat nose, Gr. σιμος.]

1. Having a very flat or snub nose, with the end turned up.
2. Concave; as, the simous part of the liver. – Brown.

SIM'PER, n.

A smile with an air of silliness. – Addison.

SIM'PER, v.i.

To smile in a silly manner. – Shak.

SIM'PER-ING, n.

The act of smiling with an air of silliness.

SIM'PER-ING, ppr.

Smiling foolishly.

SIM'PER-ING-LY, adv.

With a silly smile.

SIM'PLE, a. [Fr. from L. simplex; sine, without, and plex, plica, doubling, fold; It. semplice.]

1. Single; consisting of one thing; uncompounded; unmingled; uncombined with any thing else; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound. – Watts.
2. Plain; artless; not given to design, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; harmless. A simple husbandman in garments gray. – Hubberd.
3. Artless; unaffected; unconstrained; inartificial; plain. In simple manners all the secret lies. – Young.
4. Unadorned; plain; as, a simple style or narration; a simple dress.
5. Not complex or complicated; as, a machine of simple construction.
6. Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; silly. The simple believeth every word; but the prudent looketh well to his going. – Prov. xiv.
7. In botany, undivided, as a root, stem, or spike; only one on a petiole, as a simple leaf; only one on a peduncle, as a simple flower; having only one set of rays, as an umbel; having only one series of leaflets, as, a simple calyx; not plumose or feathered, as a pappus. – Martyn. A simple body, in chimistry, is one that has not been decomposed, or separated into two or more bodies.

SIM'PLE, n.

Something not mixed or compounded. In the materia medica, the general denomination of an herb or plant, as each vegetable is supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy. Simple, when applied to minerals and rocks, has reference to their homogeneousness, and not to the number of elements which enter into their composition. – Encyc. Dryden.

SIM'PLE, v.i.

To gather simples or plants. As simpling on the flowery hills he stray'd. – Garth.

SIM'PLE-HEART-ED, a.

Having a simple heart. – Scott.

SIM'PLE-MIND-ED, a.

Artless; undesigning; unsuspecting. – Blackstone.

SIM'PLE-MIND-ED-NESS, n.

Artlessness.

SIM'PLE-MIN-ER-AL, n.

A mineral composed of a single substance. Rocks are generally aggregates of several simple minerals cemented together.