·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.