yarn (n.)
- account
- anecdote
- braid
- brail
- cable
- causerie
- chat
- chin
- chronicle
- cord
- epic
- epos
- exaggeration
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- falsity
- farrago
- fib
- fiction
- flam
- flimflam
- fun
- gag
- half-truth
- howler
- jape
- jest
- joke
- laugh
- lie
- ligament
- ligation
- ligature
- line
- mendacity
- narration
- narrative
- panic
- play
- point
- prevarication
- prose
- rap
- riot
- rope
- saga
- scream
- sidesplitter
- sport
- story
- strand
- string
- tale
- talk
- taradiddle
- tendon
- thong
- thread
- twine
- twist
- untruth
- visit
- wheeze
- whopper
- wire
- wow
yarn (v.)
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.