Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fibre"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tampico fiber \Tam*pi"co fi"ber\ or fibre \fi"bre\
A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in
making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used
under this name.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fiber \Fi"ber\, Fibre \Fi"bre\,, n. [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 muscle.
2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a
fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender
rootlets of a plant.
3. Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
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.
{Fiber gun}, a kind of steam gun for converting, wood, straw,
etc., into fiber. The material is shut up in the gun with
steam, air, or gas at a very high pressure which is
afterward relieved suddenly by letting a lid at the muzzle
fly open, when the rapid expansion separates the fibers.
{Fiber plants} (Bot.), plants capable of yielding fiber
useful in the arts, as hemp, flax, ramie, agave, etc.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fibre
n 1: a slender and greatly elongated solid substance [syn: {fiber}]
2: the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons
moral and ethical actions and reactions: "education has
for its object the formation of character"- Herbert
Spencer [syn: {character}, {fiber}]
3: a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper
or cloth [syn: {fiber}, {vulcanized fiber}]
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