FLEECE
\flˈiːs], \flˈiːs], \f_l_ˈiː_s]\
Definitions of FLEECE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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rip off; ask an unreasonable price
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a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing
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tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing
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the wool of a sheep or similar animal
By Princeton University
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rip off; ask an unreasonable price
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a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing
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tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing
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the wool of a sheep or similar animal
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
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Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
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The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
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To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
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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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To spread over as with wool.
By Oddity Software
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The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
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Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
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The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
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To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
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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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To spread over as with wool.
By Noah Webster.
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The woolly coat of a sheep; the whole wool shorn from a sheep at one time.
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To shear (a sheep) of the wool; strip; plunder by injustice or fraud.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The coat of wool shorn from a sheep at one time; the loose and thin sheet of cotton or wool coming from the breaking-card in the process of manufacture.
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To clip wool from; to plunder; to cover, as with wool.
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FLEECELESS.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To shear off the fleece from; swindle.
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To cover as with a fleece.
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The woolly covering of a sheep.
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Fleecer.
By James Champlin Fernald
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