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A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Br. Hall.

Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.

Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.

Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation. It is a faithful saying. 2 Tim. ii. 11. The Faithful, the adherents of any system of religious belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of Mohammed.

Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.

Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. Fuller.

To tell lies; to violate the truth. It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. South.

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South.

-- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him. Sso fares it when with truth falsehood contends. Milton.

additional; further. Before our farther way the fates allow. Dryden. Let me add a farther Truth. Dryden. Some farther change awaits us. MIlton.

before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility. Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton.

Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty. The principal thing required in a witness is fidelity. Hooker.

sm. Mrs. Browning. It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. Woodward.

true bill (of indictment) against an accused person. To find his title with some shows of truth. Shak. To find out, to detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) -- to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand. "Canst thou by searching find out God" Job. xi. 7. "We do hope to find out all your tricks." Milto…

Decoration; ornament; beauty. The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth. Crashaw.

A flyaway person or thing. "Truth is such a flyaway." Emerson.

alf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against. We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 2 Cor. xiii. 8. It is for the general good of human society, and consequently of particular persons, to be true and just; and it is for men's health to be temperate. Tillotson. Aristotle is for poetical j…

In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. Guardian.

To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! Dryden. To forswear one's self, to swear falsely; to peforswear thyself."