Dictionary entry

Fable (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fa″ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Fabled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Fabling (?).] To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true. “He Fables not.” Shak.

Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell. Prior.

He fables, yet speaks truth. M. Arnold.