·- A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.
·noun Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber. II. Fibre ·noun A general name for the r...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·- ·Alt. of Tampico fibre. ...
·adj Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; — applied ·esp. to a kind of paper for chec...