Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An ancient Italic divinity presiding over vineyards and wine: later identified by the Romans with the Greek Bacchus.
  • noun In botany, the inner bark of exogenous stems, lying next the cambium, and enveloped by the corky layer.
  • noun A book: used in English especially with reference to the books in which deeds, mortgages, wills, and other public records are kept. Abbreviated l. and lib.
  • noun See the quotation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The inner bark of plants, lying next to the wood. It usually contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is, therefore, the part from which the fiber of the plant is obtained, as that of hemp, etc.
  • noun elongated woody cells found in the liber.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany The inner bark of plants, next to the wood. It usually contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is the part from which the fibre of the plant is obtained, as that of hemp, etc.

Etymologies

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Latin. See libel.

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