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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Fleece \Fleece\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fleeced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fleecing}.] 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. 2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. --Fuller. 3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] --Thomson. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
