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a short moral story (often with animal characters)

a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

a short moral story (often with animal characters)

a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

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

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

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

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

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

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

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

Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

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

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

A fictitious tale; an untruth; a story intended to teach a useful or moral truth, in which, usually, animals talk and act like human beings.

To pretend; to tell of falsely.

A feigned story or tale intended to instruct or amuse; the plot or series of events in an epic or dramatic poem; fiction; a falsehood.

To feign; to invent.

A fictitious story; fiction embodying a general truth.

A fictitious story embodying a moral, as where animals are the speakers; any fiction; legend; myth.

n. [Latin] A fictitious story or tale intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue;— plot of an epic or dramatic poem;—fiction; falsehood.

A feigned story intended to enforce some moral precept; a fiction in general; the series or contexture of events which constitute a poem; a lye.

To feign, to write not truth but fiction; to tell falsehoods.

To feign, to tell a falsity.