Fiaunt
(Fi*aunt") n. Commission; fiat; order; decree. [Obs.] Spenser.
Fib
(Fib) n. [Prob. fr. fable; cf. Prov. E. fibble-fabble nonsense.] A falsehood; a lie; — used euphemistically.
They are very serious; they don't tell fibs.
H. James. Fib
(Fib), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fibbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fibbing ] To speak falsely. [Colloq.]
Fib
(Fib), v. t. To tell a fib to. [R.] De Quincey.
Fibber
(Fib"ber) n. One who tells fibs.
Fiber
(Fi"ber, 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.
Fibered
(Fi"bered, Fi"bred) a. Having fibers; made up of fibers.
Fiber-faced
(Fi"ber-faced`, Fi"bre-faced`) a. Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; — applied
esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
Fiberless
(Fi"ber*less, Fi"bre*less), a. Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.
Fibriform
(Fi"bri*form) a. [L. fibra a fiber + -form.] (Biol.) Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling
a fiber.
Fibril
(Fi"bril) n. [F. fibrille, dim. of fibre, L. fibra.] A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender
thread; a fibrilla. Cheyne.
Fibrilla
(||Fi*bril"la) n.; pl. FibrillÆ [NL. See Fibril.] A minute thread or fiber, as one of the fibrous elements
of a muscular fiber; a fibril.
Fibrillar
(Fi"bril*lar) a. Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.
Fibrillary
(Fi"bril*la*ry) a. Of of pertaining to fibrils.
Fibrillated
(Fi"bril*la`ted) a. Furnished with fibrils; fringed.
Fibrillation
(Fi`bril*la"tion) n. The state of being reduced to fibers. Carpenter.
Fibrillose
(Fi*bril"lose) a. Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also,
composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.
