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fleece 音标拼音: [fl'is]
n. 羊毛,羊毛状之物
vt. 剪下羊毛,诈取 羊毛,羊毛状之物剪下羊毛,诈取 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 [synonym: {sheepskin}, {fleece}] 3: a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing 4: outer coat of especially sheep and yaks [synonym: {wool}, {fleece}] v 1: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [synonym: {overcharge}, {soak}, {surcharge}, {gazump}, {fleece}, {plume}, {pluck}, {rob}, {hook}] [ant: {undercharge}] 2: shear the wool from; "shear sheep" [synonym: {fleece}, {shear}] Fleece \Fleece\ (fl[=e]s), n. [OE. flees, AS. fle['o]s; 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] 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] 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 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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