Part 4375

<hw>Fledge"ling</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A young bird just fledged.</def>

<h1>Flee</h1> <Xpage=569>

<hw>Flee</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fleeing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>fleon</ets>, <ets>fleen</ets>, AS. <ets>fle\'a2n</ets> (<ets>imperf</ets>. <ets>fle\'a0h</ets>); akin to D. <ets>vlieden</ets>, OHG. & <ets>OS</ets>. <ets>fliohan</ets>, G. <ets>fliehen</ets>, Icel. <ets>fl<?/ja</ets> (imperf. <ets>fl<?/<?/i</ets>), Dan. <ets>flye</ets>, Sw. <ets>fly</ets> (imperf. <ets>flydde</ets>), Goth. <ets>pliuhan</ets>. (<?/) 84. Cf. <er>Flight</er>.]</ety> <def>To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with <i>from</i>. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.</def>

<blockquote> cowardly <b>fled</b>, not having struck one stroke. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Flee</b> fornication. <i>1 Cor. vi. 18.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>So <b>fled</b> his enemies my warlike father. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; When great speed is to be indicated, we commonly use <i>fly</i>, not <i>flee</i>; as, <i>fly</i> hence to France with the utmost speed. "Whither shall I <i>fly</i> to 'scape their hands?" <i>Shak.</i> See <er>Fly</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>, 5.</note>

<h1>Fleece</h1> <Xpage=569>

<hw>Fleece</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>flees</ets>, AS. <ets>fle\'a2s</ets>; akin to D. <ets>flies</ets>, <ets>vlies</ets> .]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.</def>

<blockquote>Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious <b>fleece</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Manuf.)</fld> <def>The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.</def>

<cs><col>Fleece wool</col>, <cd>wool shorn from the sheep.</cd> -- <col>Golden fleece</col>. <cd>See under <er>Golden</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fleece</h1> <Xpage=569>

<hw>Fleece</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fleeced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fleecing</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or frand; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.</def>

<blockquote>Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely <b>fleeced</b>. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To spread over as with wool.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Thomson.</i>

<h1>Fleeced</h1> <Xpage=569>

<hw>Fleeced</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Furnished with a fleece; <as>as, a sheep is well <ex>fleeced</ex></as>.</def>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.</def>

<h1>Fleeceless</h1> <Xpage=569>

<hw>Fleece"less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without a fleece.</def>

<h1>Fleecer</h1> <Xpage=569>

<hw>Flee"cer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund.</def>

<i>Prynne.</i>