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ind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.] Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels. Fuller.

Genuine; true; real; authentic; -- a term alluding to the comedy character Simon Pure, who is impersonated by another and is obliged to prove himself to be the "real Simon Pure."

One who practices simony, or who buys or sells preferment in the church. Ayliffe.

Of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony; consisting of simony. -- Sim"o*ni`a*cal*ly, adv. The flagitious profligacy of their lives, and the simoniacal arts by which they grasped at the popedom. J. S. Harford.

Simoniacal. [Obs.]

One of the followers of Simon Magus; also, an adherent of certain heretical sects in the early Christian church.

Simoniacal. [Obs.] Milton.

One who practices simony.

The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward. Piers Plowman.

A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

Having a very flat or snub nose, with the end turned up.

e upper parts tawny and red, the under parts white. Called also black-crested monkey, and sinpæ.

To smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner. Behold yond simpering dame. Shak. With a made countenance about her mouth, between simpering and smiling. ir. P. Sidney.

One who simpers. Sir W. Scott. A simperer that a court affords. T. Nevile.

from Simper, v.

In a simpering manner.

Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.

Sincere; inguenuous; guileless. Sir W. Scott.

Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n.

The quality or state of being simple; simplicity. Shak.