Word Meanings - FLEECED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. Spenser. 2. Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.

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• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• SHEEP'S-FOOT
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
• SHEEP-HEADED
  Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor
• SHEEPBITER
  One who practices petty thefts. Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.
• SHEEPSKIN
  1. The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it. 2. A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
• FLEECER
  One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. Prynne.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• SHEEPSHEAD
  A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, or Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. Note: The name is also locally, in a loose way, applied to various other
• SHEEP'S-EYE
  A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural. I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. Wycherley.
• SHEEP-FACED
  Over-bashful; sheepish.
• FLEECE
  The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. -- Golden fleece. See under Golden. (more info) 1. The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other
• ROBBERY
  The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately. Syn. -- Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation;
• SHEEPSPLIT
  A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
• ROBBIN
  A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds. Simmonds.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• SHEEPHOOK
  A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. Dryden.
• FLEECED
  1. Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. Spenser. 2. Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.
• SHEEPBITE
  To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts. Shak.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• HEART-ROBBING
  1. Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser. 2. Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
• DISFURNISH
  To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.