Noah Webster
Resemble
RESEM'BLE, verb transitive s as z. [See similar.]
1. To have the likeness of; to bear the similitude of something, either in form, figure or qualities. One man may resemble another in features; he may resemble a third person in temper or deportment.
Each one resembled the children of a king. Judges 8:18.
2. To liken; to compare; to represent as like something else.
The torrid parts of Africa are resembled to a libbard's skin, the distance of whose spots represents the dispersed situation of the habitations.