Lie (verb), prevaricate, falsify, equivocate, quibble, shuffle, dodge, fence, fib. Likeness, resemblance, similitude, similarity, semblance, analogy.

"Let us not quibble on words, captain.

His learning was more of the court and camp than of the bookshelf,a defect which I soon discovered,and I loved to set him tripping over some quibble of words, a proceeding which amused me vastly, though my mirth was shared by none of the others who witnessed it.

A mere quibble had arisen between the Central Powers and Russia.

He would laugh, ay, and heartily, but then it must be at Flaccus's quibble about Rexor at the tristis severitas in vultu, or inspicere in patinas, of Terencethin jests, which at their first broaching could hardly have had vis enough to move a Roman muscle.

You seem to be very anxious to reform society?' 'I am.' 'Don't you think you had better begin by reforming yourself?' 'Really, sir,' answered Lancelot, 'I am too old for that worn-out quibble.

He hasn't got time to quibble over your aunt.

For when the Gallants of the world do observe how the Ministers themselves do jingle, quibble, and play the fool with the Texts: no wonder, if they, who are so inclinable to Atheism, do not only deride and despise the Priests; but droll upon the Bible!

[Footnote 8: Dr. Johnson says there is a quibble here with asses as beasts of charge or burden.

Therefore St. Leger seems to signify a folk, a gathering, a legion or "crew" of saints, a holy crowd or crew,which may have been the quibble extorted by Spenser's "alchemy of wit" from the "upbringing" of Elizabeth Nagle, his wife.

How's your insomnia, Dominie?" "Insomnia," said I, "is a scientific quibble for unlaid memories.

The young French King, at a time when Spain, England, and Italy were all against him, had most unwisely deprived Bourbon of the whole of his vast estates by means of a legal quibble; and his greatest subject, driven to desperation by this ungrateful treatment, had passed over to the service of Charles V., and was now in command of the Spanish army.

" "He isn't going to Florida this winter," said Elinor, repenting her of the small quibble.

By an ingenious quibble the Senators adhered to the letter of his will without infringing a law that forbade them to charge the square of S. Mark with monuments.

"I won't quibble with you, Hermia," he said in a moment.

In these elegant verses, the author divests himself of all the flippant extravagance of point and quibble, in which, complying with his age, he had hitherto indulged, though of late in a limited degree.

But he is a fine facetious witty person, as my friend Sir Formal has it; and to be even with him, I know a comedy of his, that has not so much as a quibble in it which I would be authour of.

" Members were naturally eager to hear what Mr. BONAR LAW, freshly flown from Paris, had to tell them about the Peace Conference, the prospects of hanging the EX-KAISER, and so forth, but received little information, save that the Government shared the popular desire that no legal quibble should prevent the arch-criminal being brought to justice.

The argument was a quibble.

The Cardinal would, they thought, deal with them as rulers have dealt with serf-mastering law-breakers from those days to these,invent some quibble and screen them with it.

You will quibble no longer concerning tithes and tolls with Casimir of the Wolfmark.

The meaning of this was, that he would seize the ship as fair prize, and as if she had belonged to French subjects, according to a commission he had for that purpose; though one would think, after what he had already done, he need not have recourse to a quibble to give his actions a color.

Tell him No, you may quibble there, For it would split his heart to know it,

If he can escape the charge of deliberate falsehood, it is only, on demurrer, by the plea of a contemptible quibble.

For I see and understand a little how God, giving righteousness, makes pure of sin, and that verilyby no theological quibble of imputation, by no play with words, by no shutting of the eyes, no oblivion, willful or irresistible, but by very fact of cleansing, so that the consciousness of the sinner becomes glistering as the raiment of the Lord on the mount of His transfiguration.