Fibre

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.

II. Fibre ·noun A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, ·etc., used in textile manufactures.

III. Fibre ·noun Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.

IV. Fibre ·noun 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.

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