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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLEDGE

a.flej. Feathered; furnished with fethers or wings; able to fly.
His locks behind, illustrious on his shoulders, fledge with wings, lay waving round.

 

FLEDGE

v.t.To furnish with fethers; to supply with the fethers necessary for flight. The birds were not yet fledged enough to shift for themselves.

 

FLEDGED

pp. Furnished with fethers for flight; covered with fethers.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FLEDGE

Fledge, a. Etym: [OE. flegge, flygge; akin to D. vlug, G. flügge, flücke, OHG. flucchi, Icel. fleygr, and to E. fly. Fly, v. i.]

 

Defn: Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly. Hfledge with wings. Milton.

 

FLEDGE

Fledge, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Fledged; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. L'Estrange.

 

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

 

FLEDGELING

FLEDGELING Fledge "ling, n.

 

Defn: A young bird just fledged.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fledge

fledge |flej flɛʤ | ▶verb [ no obj. ] 1 (of a young bird ) develop wing feathers that are large enough for flight. • [ with obj. ] bring up (a young bird ) until its wing feathers are developed enough for flight. 2 [ with obj. ] provide (an arrow ) with feathers. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from the obsolete adjective fledge ‘ready to fly, ’ from Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlug ‘quick, agile, ’ also to fly 1 .

 

fledged

fledged |flejd flɛʤd | ▶adjective (of a young bird ) having wing feathers that are large enough for flight; able to fly. See also full-fledged. • (of a person or thing ) having just taken on the role specified: our discipline is so new fledged that the FBI had to take its cases to the Smithsonian for analysis. • chiefly literary (of an arrow ) provided with feathers.

 

Oxford Dictionary

fledge

fledge |flɛdʒ | ▶verb [ no obj. ] (of a young bird ) develop wing feathers that are large enough for flight. • [ with obj. ] bring up (a young bird ) until its wing feathers are developed enough for flight. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from the obsolete adjective fledge ‘ready to fly ’, from Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlug ‘quick, agile ’, also to fly 1 .

 

fledged

fledged |flɛʤd | ▶adjective (of a young bird ) having wing feathers that are large enough for flight; able to fly. • [ in combination ] (of a person or thing ) having just taken on the role specified: a newly fledged Detective Inspector. • chiefly literary (of an arrow ) fitted with feathers.