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n. A usually short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that speak and act like humans.

n. A story about legendary persons and exploits.

n. A falsehood; a lie.

v. To recount as if true.

verb-intransitive. Archaic To compose fables.

n. A fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.

n. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

n. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

v. To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

v. To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

n. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under apologue.

n. The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

n. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

n. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

verb-intransitive. To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

v. To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

n. A story; a tale; particularly, a feigned or invented story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narrative devised to enforce some useful truth or precept, or to introduce indirectly some opinion, in which imaginary persons or beings as well as animals, and even inanimate things, are represented as speakers or actors; an apologue.

n. A story or history untrue in fact or substance, invented or “developed by popular or poetic fancy or superstition and to some extent or at one time current in popular belief as true or real; a legend; a myth.

n. A story fabricated to deceive; a fiction; a falsehood; a lie: as, the story is all a fable.

n. The plot or connected series of events in an epic or dramatic poem founded on imagination.

n. Subject of talk; gossip; byword.

n. Synonyms Allegory, Parable, etc. (see simile).

n. Invention, fabrication, hoax.

To talk.

To speak or write fiction; tell imaginary stories.

To speak falsely; misrepresent; lie: often used euphemistically.

To feign; invent; devise or fabricate; describe or relate feigningly.

n. a deliberately false or improbable account

n. a short moral story (often with animal characters)

n. a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

"[Footnote: For an explanation of the term fable, see page 236.] 1."

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