quasi-transitive. with cognate object. Obsolete.

esp. To fabricate, frame, invent (a false or imaginary story, lie, etc.); to devise (evil). Also, to pretend (something) to have happened, to fable.

transitive. to belie the truth: to misrepresent or pervert the truth. Obsolete.

transitive. Similarly with lie, falsehood, untruth, etc., as object: to make a deliberately false statement or report. See also I tell a lie at…

An act or instance of lying; a false statement made with intent to deceive; a criminal falsehood. Phrase, to tell (†formerly to make) a lie. †Also, w…

transitive. To speak (the truth); to tell (a lie). Frequently (now usually) in the infinitive in parenthetic phrases: see phrases 3a(b).

to face (a person) with a lie: to lie to boldly, to tell a manifest untruth to. Hence to face a lie (upon): to tell a lie (to). Obsolete.

To foist in, into; to palm off fraudulently on, upon; to put out or utter falsely. Obsolete.