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Fleece

Fleece (fleece)
n.(fl***emacr]s)
Fleece
[OE. flees, AS. fleós; akin to D. flies, vlies .]
  1. The entire coat of wool that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.

    Who shore me
    Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece.     Milton.

  2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
  3. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

    Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. -- Golden fleece. See under Golden.

Fleece

Fleece (fleece)
v. t.
Fleece
  1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
  2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud] to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.

    Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller.

  3. To spread over as with wool.
    [R.] Thomson.












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