A lace made by the natives of Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru, South America, from the soft, brilliant fiber of the agave plant.
A name originally given to the gold and silver laces for which Genoa was famed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but now applied to lace made from the fiber of the aloe plant, and also to Macrame lace.
The thread used in making this lace is spun from the fiber of the leaves of the aloe, a plant resembling somewhat the century plant.
My tattered pajamas gave way to garments of cocoa-fiber and feathered finery for ceremonial wear.
His eager eyes gazed up at me out of a face stiffened and set with elephantiasis, and by his mat lay, unwrapped from their fiber coverings, that they might comfort his passing spirit, two excellently preserved negroid heads.
A wide gauze bandage material is most satisfactory; cotton of long fiber is separated in thin layers and wound about the hock, extending from the site of injury to a point about six inches proximal to the summit of the os calcis.
Appliances which depend on glue or other adhesive substances combined with leather, wood or fiber for their support, are efficacious but not comfortable.
Several thin layers of long fiber cotton are then wrapped around the extremity--enough to pad well the member--and this is retained in position with a wide bandage.
On the other hand, if a fiber crop is to be raised, it is desirable to plant more thickly, so that the stalks may not branch, but run up into a single stem.
The fiber from which these useful articles are made, unlike cotton fiber, does not come from the fruit, but from the stem.
The seed is generally broadcasted for a fibercrop and then harrowed in.
You see in the charcoal every fiber that you saw in the wood itself.
Wool is valuable in proportion to the length and evenness of the fiber and the density of the fleece.
Among the fiber crops of the world, flax ranks next to cotton.
Next to grass in value come the great cereal, corn, and the most important fiber crop, cotton, closely followed by the great bread crop, wheat.
If the fiber (the lint) only is removed from the land on which cotton is grown, cotton is the least exhaustive of the great crops grown in the United States.
Jerry let go the fiber basket he was dragging and drew his knife as he sprang to meet the assault.
It seemed the very gods of thunder were shrieking and raging in his head; every nerve and fiber in his body throbbed and tingled with the hellish vibration.
He awoke from his stupor with a shock that set every nerve-fiber quivering.
At its edge was a basket, a huge affair of knotted fiber ropes.
Against the heaping coils of white the priest was outlined, drawn, as Jerry sensed, against the protest of every fiber of his being.
The cold winds that came down from above revived him, but it helped the figures ripping at the fiber cords.
She spread the robe over him as he rested on the soft fiber bed.
The procedure in the examples above referred to consist in pouring crude petroleum on vegetable fiber or wood shavings and firing it, collecting the ashes and making the usual fire assay.
The fiber of the merino sheep is not the only excellence of the animal; when properly bred, this race has a hardiness surpassing all other high-bred races.
The surface of this variety has a protruding flattened cushion of fiber which slightly resembles the convolutions of the brain-coral.
The former have calcareous skeletons, which make them hard and rigid; the latter have skeletons of spongin-fiber or of silicious spicules, or of the two combined.
Here is a piece of branched silver: you can bend it with a touch of your finger, but the stamp of its every fiber is on the rock in which it lay, as if the quartz had been as soft as wool.
The fiber was intended to burn five and twenty minutes, and, in fact, five and twenty minutes afterwards a most tremendous explosion was heard.
Using the mechanism which consisted of a frame, cords of fiber and counterpoise, he threw into the mass an abundance of air, which by raising the temperature also concurred with the chemical transformation to produce in time pure iron.
The second fiber being set on fire, it would burn till it reached the first.
It is the fiber of meat which makes it tough, and this fiber is soluble in acetic acid, which is found in vinegar.
The slow, long cooking obtained in simmering water best destroys the fiber of meat, and tough pieces cooked in this way are made tender.
Long, slow cooking breaks down the fiber of meat, and so makes it more tender.
Do not chop the meat, as the fiber is not then so easily separated.
The end piece can then be taken off, and the fiber clinging to it, which stops the holes, be removed.
Where meat having much fiber is put in the chopper, it soon becomes clogged.
You weave the bales of fiber into bags, cloth, hawser ropes, canvas, tents, and cordage.
It is the strongest fiber known; it does not weaken in water.
We Filipinos, also, split the fiber and weave it into many kinds of cloth.
If all that he spoke was a lie, let him be forgiven for it; it was the golden-haired girl whom he addressed, and it was she who gave the tremor and the fiber to his voice.
He found himself looking down into eyes full of fire and shadow; and eager lips; and the fiber of her voice made her whole body tremble.
Her voice was a soprano of the purest quality, embracing a compass of nearly three octaves, from G to F, and so powerful that no band could overwhelm its tones, which thrilled through every fiber of the hearer.
Its fiberone can use as thread, and its enormous leaves make warm clothing.
She mended and patched their clothes with needles made of fish-bone and thread made of the fiber of plantain fruit; and under Armitage's clumsy tuition she quickly learned how to cook.
Nantes and other delicate, juicy types lack enough fiber to hold together when they get very large.
There is a highway that will lead both races out into the pure, beautiful sunshine, where there will be nothing to hide and nothing to explain, where both races can grow strong and true and useful in every fiber of their being.
One palm frond will produce eighty to one hundred long, green leaflets from two to five feet in length, and from this the fiber is prepared.
Go each of you," she said, "and get me a fiber of flax, the finest there is.
The mice went scurrying off and soon they began returning one by one each bringing a fiber of flax.
The starting apparatus consists of a small galvanometric helix, r, analogous to Thomson's siphon recorder, which is suspended from a cocoon fiber and capable of moving in an extremely powerful magnetic field, N S.
On the contrary, a rope made of cocoanut fiber was passed around his legs.
She presently rejoined them, clad in her usual way in one of the grass or fiber petticoats which she had resurrected from one of the houses of the women which had not been completely demolished.
Save for the grass or fiber petticoat of the Polynesian, with an occasional grass mat about her shoulders, Truda had never been so completely dressed before.
He had no immediate need of any such providential happening now, for behind him lay one of the cocoanut-fiber sacks or bags which had been packed full of food enough to last him for a week.
Using one of the cocoa-fiber baskets with which the islanders were accustomed to carry their produce from field to house, the two books were carried to the hiding place without suspicion the next morning.
And as I hurry back through the cool darkness of October, I feel this frenzy in every fiber of my fervid woman's-body.
I cry out after some unknown Thing with all the strength of my being; every nerve and fiber in my young woman's-body and my young woman's-soul reaches and strains in anguished unrest.
If a piece of wool is soaked in a solution of a coal-tar dye, such as magenta, the fiber of the cloth draws some of the dye out of the solution and absorbs it, becoming in consequence beautifully colored.
The grateful warmth penetrated every fiber of him and it seemed strange now that he should have been in despair only an hour ago.
He had never before known a tree to give forth such a delightful aroma and he thrilled in every wolfish fiber as it tickled his nostrils.
Within it a large fiber hammock hung between two stone posts.
In the seat of each lay a padded fiber cushion, and over the back was hung a small piece of embroidered cloth.
The fiber of China grass is considered as a textile substance of the first rank.
A wild exultation seized upon him, and every fiber in his body responded to its thrill, as tautly-stretched wires respond to an electrical storm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fiber" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
