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fleeced

  [fleest]
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–adjective
1. having a fleece of a specified kind (usually used in combination): a thick-fleeced animal.
2. covered with fleece or a fleecelike material.
3. (of a fabric) having a softly napped surface.
Origin:
1520–30; fleece + -ed 3

fleece

  [flees] noun, verb, fleeced, fleec⋅ing.
–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 flēos, flȳs; c. MD vlies, MHG vlius, G Vlies

Related forms:
fleece⋅a⋅ble, adjective
fleeceless, adjective
fleecelike, adjective
fleecer, noun
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fleece   (flēs)   
n.  
    1. The coat of wool of a sheep or similar animal.
    2. The yield of wool shorn from a sheep at one time.
  2. A soft woolly covering or mass.
  3. Fabric with a soft deep pile.
tr.v.   fleeced, fleec·ing, fleec·es
  1. To defraud of money or property; swindle.
  2. To shear the fleece from.
  3. To cover with or as if with fleece.

[Middle English fles, from Old English flēos.]
fleec'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Fleeced

Fleeced\, a. 1. Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. --Spenser.

2. Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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