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Fledged   /flɛdʒd/   Listen
verb
Fledge  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. fledged; pres. part. fledging)  
1.
To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight. "The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift for themselves."
2.
To furnish or adorn with any soft covering. "Your master, whose chin is not yet fledged."


adjective
fledged  adj.  
1.
Having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination; of birds. (Narrower terms: fledgling(prenominal), fledgeling(prenominal)). Antonym: unfledged.
Synonyms: mature.
2.
Equipped with feathers; of an arrow.
Synonyms: vaned.





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"Fledged" Quotes from Famous Books



... this country a revival of republicanism. There is a tendency to flunkeyism at the bottom of human nature. Most men "dearly love a lord," as Burns affirmed. Hence, a full-fledged aristocrat attracts flunkies as a magnet draws iron filings. Lucian tells of an exhibition in Rome in which monkeys had been trained to play a human part; which they did perfectly, before the beauty and fashion ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 • Various
... taught to believe I do; and I bear a letter, which I must deliver with my own hands. If the animal prove a quadruped, Ishmael is a true man—if a biped, fledged or unfledged, I care not, he is false, and our compactum ...
— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper
... a curious figure!" exclaimed Leo, who saw Donald approaching. "If I had seen him for the first time, I should have taken him to be a fledged centaur—a mixture of man, ...
— In the Wilds of Africa • W.H.G. Kingston
... Kate stood long at the uncurtained window, gazing at the unearthlike beauty of the moonlit snow. When at last she turned away, the afore mentioned idea was fully fledged ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various
... channel, his craft, to use a figure, was always full-rigged and under full sail. But, to change the figure, and bring it more fully into harmony with the department of nature, from which the brother had evidently derived his name, I might say his pinions were always full fledged and in full tension for a lofty flight. Unfortunately, however, he could never fold his wings in time to make a graceful descent when he desired to come down to the plane of ordinary mortals. In the descent he would sometimes "swap ends" so many times, that it was a marvel that ...
— Thirty Years in the Itinerancy • Wesson Gage Miller


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