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A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically. They are very serious; they don't tell fibs. H. James.

One who tells fibs.

Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.

like portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.

Having fibers; made up of fibers.

Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.

Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.

A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla. Cheyne.

A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.

Of of pertaining to fibrils.

Furnished with fibrils; fringed.

The state of being reduced to fibers. Carpenter.

ike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.

Pertaining to, or composed of, fibers.

A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.

The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.

Belonging to the fibers of plants.

s substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.

Possessed of properties similar to fibrinogen; capable of forming fibrin.