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A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.

Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.

One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest. Fabian policy, a policy like that of Fabius Maximus, who, by carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled Hannibal, harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and ambuscades…

enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant. Addison .

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

One of the metrical tales of the Trouvères, or early poets of the north of France.

hich the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

One who fabricates; a manufacturer. Simmonds.

To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. Burke.

One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes. The fabricator of the works of Ossian. Mason.

A woman who fabricates.

Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill.

One who invents or writes fables.

To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions. G. S. Faber.

Fabulousness. [R.] Abp. Abbot.

Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero. The fabulous birth of Minerva. Chesterfield.

A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.

A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book. Brande & C.