Li"bel (l"bl), n. [L. libellus a little book, pamphlet, libel, lampoon,
dim. of liber the liber or inner bark of a tree; also (because the
ancients wrote on this bark), paper, parchment, or a roll of any
material used to write upon, and hence, a book or treatise: cf. F.
libelle.]
1. A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate,
request, supplication, etc. [Obs.] Chaucer.
A libel of forsaking [divorcement].
Wyclif (Matt. v. 31).