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





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"Fledge" Quotes from Famous Books



... downstairs in her Sunday clothes, ready for church, he rose and greeted her conventionally, shaking hands. His manners were better than hers. She flushed. She noticed that he now had a thick fledge on his upper lip, a black, finely-shapen line marking his wide mouth. It rather repelled her. It reminded her of the thin, fine fur of his hair. She was aware of something ...
— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
... of the mind, Where branched thoughts, new-grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines, shall murmur in the wind; Far, far around shall these dark clustered trees, Fledge the wild ridged mountains steep by steep, And there by zephyrs, streams, and birds and bees, The moss-lain Dryads shall be lulled to sleep; And in the midst of this wide quietness, A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the wreathed trellis of a working brain, With buds and bells and stars ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... by man, ought to be fixed and trusted in none other but in him selfe. A litle birde (saith he) called the Larke, builded her neste in a Wheate field, and when the Wheate was ready to be ripped, her yonge began to fledge. Therefore flyinge abroade to seeke meate for them, shee warned them that if there fortuned anye newes to be done or spoken in her absence, they should giue diligent heede thereunto, and to tell her when she retourned. Within a while after, the Owner of the ...
— The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter


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