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fleecy, a.|ˈfliːsɪ|
Also 6 fleesie, flycesie, 7 fleecie.
[f. fleece n. + -y1.]
1. Covered with a fleece or with wool; fleeced, wool-bearing. fleecy star = Aries.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. vi. 15 The gentle Shepheard swaynes, which sat Keeping their fleecy flockes, as they were hyr'd. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xiv. 263 The fleecie face. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 558 The fleecie Starr that bears Andromeda. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 530 And first with stately step at evening hour Thy fleecy fellows usher to their bower. 1847J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) I. 139 A collie..compromises the affair with the fleecy nation.
b. Of a manufactured article: Having a fleece-like nap.
1790W. Buchan (title) Letter to the Patentee, concerning the Medical Properties of the Fleecy Hosiery. 1881Rita My Lady Coquette iv, A white thick fleecy shawl.
fig.1826Hood Irish Schoolm. ix, Further down the naked red prevails Of his own naked fleecy hosierie.
2. Consisting of or derived from fleeces, woolly.
1567Drant Horace' Epist. xiii. E iv, Or drunken Pyrrhe beares her wool her flycesie filched gaine. 1634Milton Comus 504 The fleecy wealth That doth enrich these downs. 1638Cowley Love's Riddle ii, The gentle Lambs and Sheep..which every Year pay him their fleecy Tribute. 1791Cowper Odyss. xvi. 40 While on the variegated seats she spread Their fleecy covering.
3. Resembling a fleece in colour or conformation; woolly. Of the sky: Covered or flecked with fleece-like clouds.
1632Milton Penseroso 72 Stooping through a fleecy cloud. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 417 When the Fleecy Skies new cloath the Wood. 1700― Fables, Pythag. Philos. 91 The fleecy snows In silence fell. 1788Cowper Negro's Compl. 13 Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit nature's claim. 1839Longfellow Wreck Hesper. xviii, She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool. 1873G. C. Davies Mount. & Mere xiii. 104 Beyond and above the bright fleecy blue.
4. ellipt. quasi-n. (see quot.)
1855in Hyde Clarke Dict. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, Fleecy, sheep's wool prepared in loose threads, for Darning and Knitting.
5. Comb., as fleecy-looking, fleecy-winged adjs.
1803Edin. Rev. II. 379 Mingled with the thick and fleecy-looking fog. 1822Shelley Chas. I, iv. 11 That flock of fleecy-wingèd clouds Sailing athwart St. Margaret's.
Hence ˈfleecily adv., in a fleecy manner.
1875Anderida III. vi. 110 From rock with plumes of fern Shivering, fleecily falls the burn.
Add: ˈfleeciness n., the quality or condition of being fleecy.
1933H. S. Walpole Vanessa iv. i. 684 The delicate fleeciness of the morning clouds. 1985N.Y. Times 24 Dec. c18/3 The key words Agatha Christie uses in describing her are soft ones—frail, fluffy, fleecy—but the fluffiness and fleeciness are a blind. |