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Fleece (fl&ē;s), 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.
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Who shore me
Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton.
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2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
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3. (Manuf.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
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Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. -- Golden fleece. See under Golden.
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Fleece, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing.] 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
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2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
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Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller.
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3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] Thomson.
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