Lexic.us

Definition of Fledge

1. Verb. Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight.

2. Verb. Decorate with feathers. "Fledge an arrow"

3. Verb. Grow feathers. "The young sparrows are fledging already"

Definition of Fledge

1. a. Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

2. v. t. & i. To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.

Definition of Fledge

1. Verb. (transitive) To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To grow, cover or be covered with feathers. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To decorate with feathers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fledge

1. to furnish with feathers [v FLEDGED, FLEDGING, FLEDGES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fledge

flecked flecked retina flecked retina syndrome flecker fleckered fleckering fleckers flecking fleckless flecks

flecky flection flectional flections fled fledge (current term) fledged fledgeless fledgeling fledgeling(a)

fledges fledgier fledgiest fledging fledgling fledgling(a) fledglings fledgy flee fleece

Literary usage of Fledge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"Personal fledge ol Commissioners.* W. HOOPER. PARIS, February 2, 1777. We, the commissioners plenipotentiary from the Congress of the United States of ..."

2. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1801)
"It is obvious that the boy and the fledge move with equal velocity, there is therefore no mechanical advantage obtained by the pulleys. ..."

3. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"1<ю refm'd to please ME \\. 95 To taste awhile the/, of a Court RL iii. ю 117 Plebeian, Gain'd but one trump and one /*. card RL iii. 54 fledge. ..."

4. What Frances E. Willard Said by Frances Elizabeth Willard (1905)
"There is no nest so likely to fledge philanthropists as a Quaker home. Beyond any religious society have Friends nourished every reform based upon the ..."

5. Travels Through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the by Giuseppe Acerbi (1802)
"... of the fledge, with a rein or halter fattened to his horns: this ... happens that the rein-deer which is placed behind the fledge, by moving forwards, ..."

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