intransitive. To tell a lie or lies; to utter falsehood; to speak falsely.

intransitive. To tell lies.

intransitive. To say what is untrue, to jest in order to cheat, mock, amuse, or make sport. Obsolete.

intransitive. To lie, tell lies. to gab on (also upon, of): to lie about (someone or something). Obsolete.

To speak falsely, talk falsehoods, lie. Const. with. Obsolete exc. archaic.

intransitive. To utter falsehoods, fib, tell lies.

intransitive. To make a false representation or statement; to deal in falsehoods. Obsolete.

intransitive. To play the Cretan, i.e. to lie, tell lies.

a bottle of smoke: an impossible, illusory, or evanescent thing or (occasionally) person; something without substance, a chimera.

intransitive. Cant. (See quot. 1819.)

To tell lies.