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verb

Fledge v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. fledged; pres. part. fledging)

To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight. "The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift for themselves."

To furnish or adorn with any soft covering. "Your master, whose chin is not yet fledged."

adjective

Fledge adj. Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly. "His shoulders, fledge with wings."

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Etymology of 'Fledge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fledge" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sparrowes white as Snow, Whose pretty eyes like sparkes doe show; In her Bosome Venus hatcht them Where her little Cupid watcht them, Till they too fledge their Nests forsooke Themselues and to the Fields betooke, Where by chance a Fowler caught them Of whom I full dearely bought them; 150 * The redde They'll fetch you Conserue from the *Hip, fruit of the ...

— Minor Poems of Michael Drayton • Michael Drayton

... be thy priest, and build a fane 50 In some untrodden region of my mind, Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind: Far, far around shall those dark-cluster'd trees Fledge the wild-ridged mountains steep by steep; And there by zephyrs, streams, and birds, and bees, The moss-lain Dryads shall be lull'd to sleep; And in the midst of this wide quietness A rosy sanctuary will ...

— Keats: Poems Published in 1820 • John Keats

... and fens, and shores, Their brood as numerous hatch from the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young; but feathered soon and fledge They summed their pens; and, soaring the air sublime, With clang despised the ground, under a cloud In prospect: there the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build; Part loosely ...

— Voices for the Speechless • Abraham Firth