Definition of fable

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Fable (n.) A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue..

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Fable :: Fable (n.) The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem..
Daphne :: Daphne (n.) A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree..
Titanic :: Titanic (a.) Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures..
Hesperides :: Hesperides (n. pl.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides..
Dipsas :: Dipsas (n.) A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.
Testudo :: Testudo (n.) A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise..
Jumart :: Jumart (n.) The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare.
Renard :: Renard (n.) A fox; -- so called in fables or familiar tales, and in poetry..
Homiletical :: Homiletical (a.) Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable.
Paradigm :: Paradigm (n.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable..
Mermaid :: Mermaid (n.) A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish..
Mythoplasm :: Mythoplasm (n.) A narration of mere fable.
Naiad :: Naiad (n.) A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain..
Stor :: Stopship (n.) A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
Lie :: Lie (n.) A fiction; a fable; an untruth.
Effable :: Effable (a.) Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.
Prometheus :: Prometheus (n.) The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver..
Affableness :: Affableness (n.) Affability.
Briarean :: Briarean (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed..
Bruin :: Bruin (a.) A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.
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