ppl. a. [f. FIBRE sb. + -ED2.] Furnished with fibres; chiefly in comb., as finely-fibred, three-fibred, etc. Also fig.

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1776.  Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 14. Serpyllifolia … leaves egg-shaped, smooth, scolloped … 3-fibred.

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1844.  Mrs. Browning, Lost Bower, xxiv.

          And the ivy veined and glossy
  Was enwrought with eglantine;
  And the wild hop fibred closely,
  And the large-leaved columbine,
Arch of door and window mullion, did right sylvanly entwine.

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  fig.  1869.  Bushnell, Wom. Suffrage, viii. 177. They have a nature fibred and feathered for the highest inspirations.

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1874.  Blackie, Self-Culture, 67. The most venerated traditions and institutions of society, and even some of the kindliest and most finely-fibred affections, are in not a few cases arrayed against its exercise; and in such cases to speak the truth boldly requires a combination of tact, of which not every man is capable.

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