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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



... seats for Napoleon and his guests were right behind the orchestra. Shortly after, the most able of my pupils, to whom I had assigned the direction of the music, and under whose leadership I had placed myself as a new-fledged hornist, had tuned up the orchestra, the high personages made their appearance, and the overture began. The orchestra, with their faces turned to the stage, stood in a long row, and each was strictly forbidden ...
— Great Violinists And Pianists • George T. Ferris
... time," he had frequently informed his political cronies since the opening of the campaign, "that I'll wet-nurse a new-fledged candidate. They've got at least to have their milk teeth through if they want Benjamin Doolittle after this." To George, itchingly aware through all his rasped nerves of Mrs. Herrington's letter in that morning's Sentinel ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.
... mind," said Mr Murchison. "Yes, he's full-fledged 'barrister and solicitor' now; he can plead your case or draw you up a deed with the best of them. Lorne's made a fair record, so far. We've no reason ...
— The Imperialist • (a.k.a. Mrs. Everard Cotes) Sara Jeannette Duncan
... those organs of public opinion which have any claim to be regarded as enlightened judges in questions of education and culture. The thing seemed to have been laughed out of court. And yet it turned out that a year or two afterwards a full-fledged scheme for carrying out some of the crudest and most objectionable features of this "efficiency" program was presented to the professors of Harvard University, apparently with the expectation that they would fall in with its requirements without hesitation or protest. For some days there ...
— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various
... Our seamen are fledged Loves, Our masts are bills of doves, Our decks fine gold; Our ropes are dead maids' hair, Our stores are love-shafts fair And manifold. We are ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various


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