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Webster 1913 Edition
Fibre
{
,, Fi′ber
,Fi′bre
}Noun.
[F.
fibre
, L. fibra
.] 1.
One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted;
as, the
. fiber
of flax or of muscle2.
Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance;
as, a
; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant. fiber
of spun glass[wns=1]
Yet had no
fibers
in him, nor no force. Chapman.
4.
A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.