Obs. Pl. fibræ, fibra’s. [L. fibra FIBRE.] A fibre, filament.

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1641.  Wilkins, Math. Magick, I. v. (1648), 29. There are besides divers fibræ or hairy substances, which nature hath bestowed for the farther corroborating of their motions; these being dispersed through every muscle.

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1657.  M. Lawrence, Use & Practice of Faith, 15. The youngest plants thrust their fibra’s into the earth.

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1661.  Fuller, Worthies, I. 330. The many fibræ appendant to the root thereof.

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1775.  Ash, Fibra.

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