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fleece

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–noun

1.	the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.

2.	the wool shorn from a sheep at one shearing.

3.	something resembling a fleece: a fleece of clouds in a blue sky.

4.	a fabric with a soft, silky pile, used for warmth, as for lining garments.

5.	the soft nap or pile of such a fabric.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to deprive of money or belongings by fraud, hoax, or the like; swindle: He fleeced the stranger of several dollars.

7.	to remove the fleece of (a sheep).

8.	to overspread, as with a fleece; fleck with fleecelike masses: a host of clouds fleecing the summer sky.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME flees, OE fléos, flȳs; c. MD vlies, MHG vlius, G Vlies

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—Related forms

fleece·a·ble, adjective

fleeceless, adjective

fleecelike, adjective

fleecer, noun

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fleeceable
adjective
naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"

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