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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fledge.

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  • Other important data is collected, such as when the first eggs appear, date of the first hatch, and when the brood "fledges", or leaves the nest boxes as self-supporting individuals.

    unknown title 2009

  • : I'll be glad to see them,: he replied, and sensed the relief in Hweel's mind.: lt was clever of you to have his mate come with yours; the fledges will have protection by day and night on the journey.

    Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • Two more of my fledges go out to prove their wings.

    The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • Two more of my fledges go out to prove their wings.

    The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • Prose fledges into poetry, cold compliments warm into praise, eulogy rarifies into panegyric and goes off in rhapsody.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Prose fledges into poetry, cold compliments warm into praise, eulogy rarifies into panegyric and goes off in rhapsody.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • A wondrous silver heron its inner darkness fledges!

    The Falconer of God 1922

  • A wondrous silver heron its inner darkness fledges!

    The Falconer of God 1917

  • The shy emerald mantles the valleys and fledges the heights; the pussy-willows tremble by lake and stream; the wild crocus brims the hollows with a haze of violet; trailing his last ragged pennants of snow on the hills, winter makes his sullen retreat.

    The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

  • By exploring thoughts, disciplinary sacrifices, supernal prayers, holy toils of disinterestedness, he fledges his soul's pinions, lays up treasures in heaven, and at last migrates to the attracting clime.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

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