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English

Etymology

Old English flēos

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at en-us-fleece.ogg
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-iːs|-iːs

Noun

Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
Insulating skin with the wool attached
An insulating wooly garment. Ex.: Harriett likes to curl up on the fleece blanket, even when it's gravy time.

Translations

Hungarian:

Czech: {{t-|cs|rouno|n}}

Hungarian:

Czech: {{t-|cs|flís|m}}

: toison (1), fleece (3)

: шерсть (1); шкура , овчина , руно (2)
: runo

Verb

con|Con or trick someone out of money.
To shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep).
: During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days.

Translations

Hungarian: ,

Category:Hair

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Fleece \Fleece\ (fl[=e]s), n. [OE. flees, AS. fle['o]s; 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Fleece \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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WordNet fleece
n 1: the wool of a sheep or similar animal
2: tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for
clothing [syn: sheepskin]
3: a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for
clothing
4: outer coat of especially sheep and yaks [syn: wool]
v 1: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge, soak,
surcharge, gazump, plume, pluck, rob, hook]
[ant: undercharge]
2: shear the wool from; "shear sheep" [syn: shear]

Moby Dictionary
Leatherette , Leatheroid , alabaster , bare , beat , beguile of , bilk ,
bleed , bleed white , blubber , breeze , bristle , bunco , burn , butter ,
capillament , chalk , cheat , chisel , chouse , chouse out of , cilium ,
clay , clip , coat , cog , cog the dice , con , cozen , crib , crop ,
cushion , cuticle , defraud , denudate , denude , deplume , depredate ,
dermis , despoil , diddle , displume , divest , do , do in , do out of ,
dough , down , drain , driven snow , dry , eiderdown , euchre , exhaust ,
exploit , expose , feather bed , feathers , fell , finagle , flam , flay ,
flesh , flimflam , floss , flour , flue , fluff , foam , fob , forage ,
foray , freeboot , fudge , fur , furring , gouge , gull , gut , gyp , hair ,
have , head , head of hair , hide , hocus , hocus-pocus , hold up ,
horsehair , hustle , imitation fur , imitation leather , impoverish ,
integument , ivory , jacket , kapok , lay bare , lay open , leather ,
leather paper , lily , locks , loot , maggot , mane , maraud , mat , milk ,
mop , mulct , outer layer , outer skin , overcharge , overprice ,
overtax , pack the deal , paper , pearl , pelt , peltry , pick clean ,
pigeon , pile , pillage , pillow , pluck , plunder , plush ,
practice fraud upon , prey on , profiteer , pubescence , pubic hair ,
pudding , puff , putty , raid , ransack , ravage , raven , ravish ,
rawhide , reive , remove , rifle , rind , rip off , rob , rook , rope in ,
rubber , sack , satin , scam , screw , sell gold bricks , setula , shag ,
shave , shear , sheath , sheet , shock , shortchange , silk , silver ,
skin , skins , snow , soak , spoil , spoliate , stack the cards , stick ,
sting , strip , strip bare , suck dry , surcharge , swan , swansdown ,
sweat , sweep , swindle , take , take a dive , tegument , thatch ,
thimblerig , thistledown , throw a fight , tresses , uncloak , uncover ,
unsheathe , unveil , vair , velvet , victimize , wax , wool , zephyr

Fleece the wool of a sheep, whether shorn off or still attached to the skin (Deut. 18:4; Job 31:20). The miracle of Gideon's fleece (Judg. 6:37-40) consisted in the dew having fallen at one time on the fleece without any on the floor, and at another time in the fleece remaining dry while the ground was wet with dew.