資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fable \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.