A feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept. Jothams fable of the trees is the oldest extant, and as beautiful as any made since.

Fiction in general; as, the story is all a fable.

An idle story; vicious or vulgar fictions. But refuse profane and old wives fables. 7 Timothy 4:7.

The plot, or connected series of events, in an epic or dramatic poem. The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral.

Falsehood; a softer term for a lie.

To feign; to write fiction. Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.

To tell falsehoods; as, he fables not.

To feign; to invent; to devise and speak of, as true or real. The hell thou fablest.