Fleece, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing.]
 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
 2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
    Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced.   --Fuller.
 3. To spread over as with wool. [R.]
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