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If I keep an eye on the swallows and clean out the houses as soon as their youngsters fledge, the bluebirds might still have a chance to take advantage of the houses later this year.

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  1. transitive verb To take care of (a young bird) until it is ready to fly.
  2. transitive verb To cover with or as if with feathers.
  3. transitive verb To provide (an arrow) with feathers.
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  • Although I am not full fledge or trying to be on it, many of my foods are slowly going this way. —  Karina's Kitchen: Gluten-Free Recipes
  • I felt I was fully fledge, even though so young and tender, I was foolish enough to take off with a dagger tucked in my belt and a wooden staff in one hand, to some imaginary place I never knew. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • I happen to be a full-fledge Obama fan and when it comes to Michelle?
  • David Beckham ends up becoming a full-fledge member of —  Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business
  • The Bird Club spends time teaching the children about bluebirds and how they nest and fledge, and give the kids a chance to look in the boxes and view live birds.
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  1. Probably from obsolete fledge, feathered, from Middle English flegge, from Old English *flycge; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also flidge, flish, flitch, flush, flig, fligged, etc. (see flush); from Anglo-Saxon *flycge (not found; cf. flyge, flight) (later Middle English flegge, fligge, flygge = Middle Dutch vlugghe, Dutch vlug, fledge, able to fly, nimble, volatile, = Middle Low German vlugge = Old High German flucchi, Middle High German vlücke, German flücke, flügge = Icelandic fleygr), fledge, able to fly, from fleógan (= Dutch vliegen = German fliegen, etc.), fly: see fly.
  2. Also formerly or dial, flidge; from fledge, adjective
 

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