| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Fleece.[Websters]
2. To be gashed or rented. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have clipped, sniped, snipped or sheared. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have cracked or cleaved. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be lacerated or tattered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have ripped or plucked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To be feathered or fledged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be plumed or nibbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have sheeted or plated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have cheated or swindled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb fleece.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fleece) | 1. Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.[Wordnet]. 2. Shear the wool from.[Wordnet]. 3. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.[Websters]. 4. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.[Websters]. 5. To spread over as with wool.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: fleecing, fleeced, fleeces, fleecer, fleecers, fleecingly and fleecedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.[Websters]
2. Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced.[Websters] 3. Being cleft or cloven. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being truncated or tailless. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being feathered or fledged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being plumed or nibbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being bereft or bereaved. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being abstracted or abstract.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FLEECED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FLEECED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Stripped by severe exactions.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Literature | Fleeced (1 syl.). Cheated of one's money; sheared like a sheep. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of fleece. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: fleece
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Fleece wool | Wool shorn from the sheep. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Golden Fleece | In Greek mythology, a fleece of gold owned by the king of Colchis and guarded in a sacred grove by a dragon; recovered by Jason and the Argonauts. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Order of the Golden Fleece | The Order of the Golden Fleece (Orden del Toisón de Oro in Spanish) is an order of chivalry founded in 1430 by Duke Philip III of Burgundy to celebrate his marriage to the Portuguese princess Isabelle of Aviz. (references) | ||
| The Fleece Inn | The Fleece Inn is a public house in Bretforton, Worcestershire in the Vale of Evesham: The half-timbered building, over six hundred years old, has been a pub since 1848, and is now owned by the National Trust. The inn was extensively damaged by fire on February 27 2004 — repairs and rebuilding commenced on November 1, 2004. The Fleece officially reopened — with a new roof and improved facilities — on 18 June 2005. (references) | ||
| Tintin and the Golden Fleece | Tintin and the Golden Fleece (originally Tintin et Le Mystère de la Toison D'or) is a film first released in France on December 6, 1961. It is a live-action adaptation of the Tintin comic book series written and drawn by the Belgian writer-artist Hergé. (references) | ||
| Veedon Fleece | Veedon Fleece is the 9th studio album by Irish musician Van Morrison, released in February 1974 (see 1974 in music). The album was recorded shortly after Morrison's divorce and thus led to a poignant album with a similar atmosphere to that of his 1968 album, Astral Weeks. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: fleece
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Fleece tier | Occupations | Folds and ties wool fleece into bundle for sacking or grading: Removes heavy tags, dung locks, and badly stained wool from fleece. Spreads fleece on floor with hide side up. Folds loose ends inside and rolls fleece into compact bundle, tying bundle with twisted wool or paper twine. Tosses bundle aside for sacking or grading. May shear sheep [SHEEP SHEARER (agriculture)]. (references) | |
| Fleece wool | Industry | Wool obtained by shearing the live animal. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Golden Fleece | Literature | 1: And youthful Jason an attempt conceived 2: He roused the brave to re-demand the fleece." 3: Of the north. The fur and peltry of Siberia is so called. 4: Ino persuaded her husband, Athamas, that his son Phryxos was the cause of a famine which desolated the land, and the old dotard ordered him to be sacrificed to the angry gods. Phryxos being apprised of this order, made his escape over sea on a ram which had a golden fleece. When he arrived at Colchis, he sacrificed the ram to Zeus, and gave the fleece to King AEe'tes, who hung it on a sacred oak. It was afterwards stolen by Jason in his celebrated Argonautic expedition. (See Argo.) 5: An order of knighthood by this title was instituted by Philip III., Duke of Burgundy, in 1429. The selection of the fleece as a badge is perhaps best explained by the fact that the manufacture of wool had long been the staple industry of the Low Countries, then a part of the Burgundian possessions. 6: Dyer: The Fleece, ii. 7: Lofty and bold; along Peneus' banks, 8: Around Olympus' brows, the Muses' haunts, 9: "This rising Greece with indignation viewed, 10: Australia has been called "The Land of the Golden Fleece," because of the quantity of wool produced there. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| JASON'S FLEECE | Slang in 1811 | JASON'S FLEECE. A citizen cheated of his gold. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece | Literature | Lawyers. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| To fleece | Slang in 1811 | To FLEECE. To rob, cheat, or plunder. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: fleece | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| List of Knights of the Golden Fleece | 356 | Fleece | 2 | |
| Golden Fleece | 28 | Golden Fleece | 28 | |
| Veedon Fleece | 22 | Golden Fleece (alternative meanings) | 3 | |
| Polar fleece | 19 | Golden Fleece (horse) | 4 | |
| Order of the Golden Fleece | 17 | Golden Fleece Award | 4 | |
| Tintin and the Golden Fleece | 17 | Golden Fleece Company | 2 | |
| Golden Fleece Award | 4 | Golden Fleece Inn, York | 4 | |
| Golden Fleece (horse) | 4 | List of Knights of the Golden Fleece | 356 | |
| Golden Fleece Inn, York | 4 | Order of the Golden Fleece | 17 | |
| The Fleece Inn | 4 | Polar fleece | 19 | |
| Golden Fleece (alternative meanings) | 3 | The Fleece Inn | 4 | |
| Fleece | 2 | Tintin and the Golden Fleece | 17 | |
| Golden Fleece Company | 2 | Veedon Fleece | 22 | |
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