fleeced

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]


Fleeced \Fleeced\, a.

1.Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

2.Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed. [1913 Webster]

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