Crossword-Solution: FIBRE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fibre | n. | 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. |
| Fibre | n. | Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant. |
| Fibre | n. | Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber. |
| Fibre | n. | A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures. |
| fibre | - | A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FIBRE | anagram | BRIEF, FIBER, FIREB |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with FIBRE (5)
There was an enormous fireplace which was in almost any part of the room where you cared to light it, and across this Wendy stretched strings, made of fibre, from which she suspended her washing.
Rise up from your bed of branches, Rise, O youth, and wrestle with me!” Faint with famine, Hiawatha Started from his bed of branches, From the twilight of his wigwam Forth into the flush of sunset Came, and wrestled with Mondamin; At his touch he felt new courage Throbbing in his brain and bosom, Felt new life and hope and vigor Run through every nerve and fibre.
Morally, as well as materially, there was a coarser fibre in those wives and maidens of old English birth and breeding than in their fair descendants, separated from them by a series of six or seven generations; for, throughout that chain of ancestry, every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty, and a slighter physical frame, if not character of less force and solidity than her own.
Here he beat upon the fibre-bound saplings of which the barrier was constructed, shouting to the natives in their own tongue that he was a friend who wished food and shelter for the night.
She started when she definitely thought of her husband, and thought with what violence it would work in every fibre of his rude strength.
Quotes with FIBRE (3)
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.
I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive.
At the sound of my name, those two worlds on either side of me collide, and my lips meet his. Time ceases to exist, and so, apparently does any logic that my mind is hanging on to. Logic would say that this is insane; every other fibre of my being says it's right.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1958–2017).