Fleece

Noun

 * 1)  Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
 * 2)  Insulating skin with the wool attached
 * 3)  A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
 * 4)  An insulating wooly jacket
 * 5)  Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.

Verb

 * 1) Con or trick someone out of money.
 * 2) To shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep).
 * During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days.

Adjectives for Fleece
delicate; silky; plenteous; warm.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
fleos:

Noun

 * Armenian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese: 羊毛 (yángmáo)
 * Czech:
 * French:
 * Greek: προβιά, μηλωτή
 * Hungarian:


 * Latvian: vilna
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:, toisón


 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * French:
 * Greek: προβιά


 * Hungarian: gyapjas bőr
 * Russian: овчина
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: piel, vellón


 * Catalan:
 * Italian:


 * Spanish:, pana, terciopelo


 * Czech:


 * Italian: ;


 * : toison (1), fleece (4)


 * : runo

Verb

 * Hungarian: megvág,
 * Romanian:


 * Spanish: esquilar, esquilmar