Fledged
[fledʒd] or [flɛdʒd]
Definition
(adj.) (of an arrow) equipped with feathers .
(adj.) (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination .
Typed by Deirdre--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Fledge
Checker: Sandra
Examples
- Blair joined me at Milliken's Bend a full-fledged general, without having served in a lower grade. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I have the best hopes of you both, with your proud distinctions--a pair of half-fledged eaglets. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His first act was to make me a full-fledged chieftain with the rank I had won by my combats the first few weeks of my captivity among them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The little singing-bird that never was fledged, was long kept in a cage by a guardian of your appointing, well enough known to our old intriguer here. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- As to what I dare, I'm a old bird now, as has dared all manner of traps since first he was fledged, and I'm not afeerd to perch upon a scarecrow. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Checker: Sandra