fleecy, adj. 1. downy, fleece-like, soft, smooth, la-nuginose, lanuginous, velvety, velutinous; fluffy, feathery, flurry, nappy, shaggy.
2. woolly, lanate, lanose, flocculent, flocky, Bot. floccose.
3. hairy, pubescent, Bot., Entomol. tomentose, Both Bot. villous, villose.
fleer, v. horselaugh, heehaw; mock, deride, taunt, make fun of; ridicule, twit, pull [s.o.'s] leg; jeer, sneer, scoff, gibe, give [s.o.] the business.
fleet1, n. flotilla, armada, argosy, naval force, task force; squadron, division, Obs. escadrille.
fleet2, adj. swift, fast, rapid, quick, double-quick, expeditious, speedy; arrowy, winged, cometary, meteoric; agile, nimble, nimble-footed, light-footed, swiftfooted, light of heel,
fleeting, adj. passing, flitting, flying, unenduring, here today-gone tomorrow; transient, transitory, temporary, impermanent; brief, short-lived, momentary; ephemeral, evanescent, vanishing,
fleetness, n. swiftness, rapidity, quickness, speediness; speed, lightning or blazing speed, velocity; expedition, dispatch, promptitude, promptness; agility, nimbleness, nimble-footedness, quick-footedness, light-footedness,
flesh, n. 1. muscle, tissue, fat; meat, beef, mutton, veal, pork; substance, matter, pith, marrow, gist, core.
2. fatness, weight, corpulence, obesity. See - fleshiness.
3. body, materiality, corporeality, corporality, physi-cality; corporeity, Biol, soma, flesh and blood, man.
4. physical nature, animal nature, animality, libido; carnality, sensuality, sensualism, earthiness; voluptuousness, luxuriousness, sybaritism, fleshpots, hedonism.
5. mankind, man, humanity, humankind, womankind, creaturehood; mortality, the living, ourselves, human race, human species, human beings, homo sapiens, earthlings.
6. kin, family, kinship, relatives, relations; kindred, kith and kin, brethren, blood.
7. surface, skin, epidermis, scarfskin, coat, SI. hide, integument.
8. in the flesh present, before one's eyes, in person, here, in front of one.
-v. 9.
flesh out fill out, fill, color, give dimension, substantiate, draw out, incorporate, embody.
fleshiness, n. fatness, obesity, obeseness, corpulence, corpulency; pursiness, Inf. avoirdupois, Fr. embonpoint, adiposity, Pathol, adiposis; paunch, potbelly, SI. beer belly, Obs. gorbelly, tubbiness, chubbiness, pudginess, plumpness, chunkiness, paunchiness, stumpiness, lumpiness, dumpiness; roundedness, rotundity, portliness, stoutness, bulkiness,
fleshly, adj. 1. bodily, physical, corporal, corporeal, somatic, incarnate; material, substantial, palpable, tangible.
2. sensual, carnal, erotic, sensuous, hot, earthy; lusty; animal, bestial, beastly, brutish; lustful, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, licentious.
3. worldly, unspiritual, mundane, earthly, terrestrial, secular, lay.