Fleece

[fliːs] or [flis]

Definition

(noun.) a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing.

(noun.) the wool of a sheep or similar animal.

(verb.) shear the wool from; 'shear sheep'.

Typist: Preston--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

(n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

(v. t.) To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

(v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.

(v. t.) To spread over as with wool.

Typed by Ann

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Clip, shear.[2]. Strip, rob, plunder, despoil, rifle, steal from.

Edited by Leah

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Strip, despoil, shear

ANT:Invest, endow, endue

Inputed by Dan

Definition

n. the coat of wool shorn from a sheep at one time: anything like a fleece.—v.t. to clip wool from: to plunder: to cover as with wool.—adjs. Fleeced having a fleece; Fleece′less.—ns. Flee′cer one who strips or plunders; Fleece′-wool that shorn from the living animal.—adj. Fleec′y woolly.

Edited by Flo