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Fledged   /flɛdʒd/   Listen
Fledged

adjective
1.
(of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination.  Synonym: mature.
2.
(of an arrow) equipped with feathers.  Synonym: vaned.



Fledge

verb
(past & past part. fledged; pres. part. fledging)
1.
Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight.
2.
Decorate with feathers.  Synonym: flight.
3.
Grow feathers.  Synonym: feather.



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... fashion. But Derrick was human, and had his faults like the rest of us; and I am pretty sure he did not much enjoy the sight of his father's foolish and unreasonable devotion to Lawrence. If you come to think of it, he would have been a full-fledged angel if no jealous pang, no reflection that it was rather rough on him, had crossed his mind, when he saw his younger brother treated with every mark of respect and liking, and knew that Lawrence would never stir a finger really to help the poor fractious invalid. Unluckily they happened one ...
— Derrick Vaughan--Novelist • Edna Lyall

... the two white eggs, the habits of male and female in taking turns in hatching, the parents' habit of half digesting the food in their own crops and then pouring it into the crops of the young, the rapid growth of the young, the next pair of young hatched before the first pair is full-fledged. ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study • Ontario Ministry of Education

... In full-fledged romantic love of the masculine type the admiration of a girl's personal beauty is no doubt the most entrancing ingredient. But such love is rare even to-day, while in ordinary love-affairs the sense of beauty does not play nearly so important a role as is commonly ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... in all ranks and conditions of life, from the lord of the manor down to the apprentice-artizan and newly-fledged young man from shop and warehouse. Like love, football, for the time, at least, levels all distinction; and albeit I know, for that of it, many a well-matched pair, who have met for the first time on the grand stand at Hampden Park, looking back with feelings of intense ...
— Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches • David Drummond Bone

... forty or fifty times or more, followed by as many independent great acts of creation, at which alone have species been originated, and at each of which a vegetable and an animal kingdom were produced entire and complete, full-fledged, as flourishing, as wide-spread, and populous, as varied and mutually adapted from the beginning as ever afterward—such a view, of course, supersedes all material connection between successive species, and removes even ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley


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