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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
FLEE'CING, ppr. Stripping of money or property by severe demands of fees, taxes or contributions.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Fleece 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.] --Thomson.
