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| fleece | (n) the wool of a sheep or similar animal | | fleece | (n) a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing | | fleece | (v) shear the wool from, Syn. shear, Example: shear sheep | | fleeceable | (adj) naive and easily deceived or tricked, Syn. gullible, green, Example: at that early age she had been gullible and in love | | golden fleece | (n) in Greek mythology, a fleece of gold owned by the king of Colchis and guarded in a sacred grove by a dragon; recovered by Jason and the Argonauts | | overcharge | (v) rip off; ask an unreasonable price, Syn. rob, plume, gazump, fleece, surcharge, pluck, soak, hook, Ant. undercharge | | sheepskin | (n) tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing, Syn. fleece | | silver lace vine | (n) twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers; western China to Russia, Syn. Polygonum aubertii, China fleece vine, Russian vine | | wool | (n) outer coat of especially sheep and yaks, Syn. fleece |
| | Fleece | n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ] Who shore me
Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Manuf.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. [ 1913 Webster ]
Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. --
Golden fleece. See under Golden. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Fleece | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fleeced p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing. ] 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. [ 1913 Webster ] Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To spread over as with wool. [ R. ] Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Fleeced | a. 1. Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Fleeceless | a. Without a fleece. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Fleecer | n. One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Fleecy | a. Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece. “Fleecy flocks.” Prior. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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