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Fledge

verb

(past & past part. fledged; pres. part. fledging)

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

Decorate with feathers. Synonym: flight.

Grow feathers. Synonym: feather.

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"Fledge" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sparrowes white as Snow, Whose pretty eyes like sparkes doe show; In her Bosome Venus hatcht them Where her little Cupid watcht them, Till they too fledge their Nests forsooke Themselues and to the Fields betooke, Where by chance a Fowler caught them Of whom I full dearely bought them; 150 * The redde They'll fetch you Conserue from the *Hip, fruit of the ...

— Minor Poems of Michael Drayton • Michael Drayton

... be thy priest, and build a fane 50 In some untrodden region of my mind, Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind: Far, far around shall those dark-cluster'd trees Fledge the wild-ridged mountains steep by steep; And there by zephyrs, streams, and birds, and bees, The moss-lain Dryads shall be lull'd to sleep; And in the midst of this wide quietness A rosy sanctuary will ...

— Keats: Poems Published in 1820 • John Keats

Words linked to "Fledge" : raise, grow, adorn, get, acquire, ornament, develop, nurture, grace, beautify, produce, embellish, rear, decorate, bring up, parent