Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.