[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fleece \fleece\ fl=es, n. oe. flees, as. fle'os; 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
see also:
fleece wool golden fleece golden 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fleece \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
see also:
fleeced fleecing 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
sheepskin wool overcharge soak surcharge gazump 
plume pluck rob hook undercharge 
shear 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

203 moby thesaurus words for "fleece":
   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

[5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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.
   

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