The wool of a sheep, whether shorn off or still attached to the skin (Deuteronomy 18:4; Job 31:20). The miracle of Gideon's fleece (Judges 6:37-40) consisted in the dew having fallen at one time on the fleece without any on the floor, and at another time in the fleece remaining dry while the ground was wet with dew.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) 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.

2. (n.) Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

3. (n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

4. (v. t.) To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

5. (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.

6. (v. t.) To spread over as with wool.