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

That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication.

Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.

To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. Sir P. Sidney.

That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. Men often swallow falsities for truths. Sir T. Brown.

s, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions. But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. T. Moore.

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

A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically. They are very serious; they don't tell fibs. H. James.

A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion. [Obs.] A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity. South.

onted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. Sir P. Sidney.

d a heresy; which signified no more than a private opinion, without reference to truth or falsehood. Hobbes.

to keep in expectation; to have in one's power. [Obs.] O, fie! to receive favors, return falsehoods, And hold a lady in hand. Beaw. & Fl. --To hold in play, to keep under control; to dally with. Macaulay. -- To hold off, to keep at a distance. -- To hold on, to hold in being, continuance or position; as, to hold a r…

ceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal. Truth from illusive falsehood to command. Thomson.

The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged. Bell.

ell disposed; -- used with reference to some evil; as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or falsehood.

ble; uprigth; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal. If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuin method to obviate dishonesty. Locke.

To intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect closely; as, to interweave truth with falsehood. Dryden. Words interwove with sighs found out their way. Milton.

to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood. Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. Milton. He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others. Sir W. Scott.

nal contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention. We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished. Evelyn.

ts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about. Judge not according to the appearance. John vii. 24. She is wise if I can judge of her. Shak.