| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Being nourishing.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. To swindle.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To feather or plume.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Present participle conjugation of the verb fledge.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fledge) | 1. Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight.[Wordnet]. 2. Decorate with feathers; "fledge an arrow".[Wordnet]. 3. Grow feathers.[Wordnet]. 4. Grow feathers; "The young sparrows are fledging already".[Wordnet]. 5. To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.[Websters]. 6. To furnish or adorn with any soft covering.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: fledging, fledged, fledges, fledger, fledgers, fledgingly and fledgedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FLEDGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FLEDGING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Furnishing with fethers for flight.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of fledge. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: fledge
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Fledge (Narnia) | Fledge, also sometime known as Strawberry, was the Father of all Winged Horses in the Chronicles of Narnia. Fledge was once a cab-horse belonging to King Frank, first of all Kings of Narnia, in the city of London, England. He was among the witnesses of the Creation of Narnia and Aslan bestowed upon his person the privilege of being the first of the Winged Horses of Narnia. He delivered Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer to the garden in the Western Wild to retrieve a magic apple for Aslan. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: FLEDGING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Fledging success | Avian | (1) the average number of offspring fledged (i.e, raised until they leave the nest) per female (May and Robinson 1985); (2) percentage of hatchlings that fledge (Robinson and Rotenberry 1991:280). (references) | |
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| Fledge | 4 | Fledge | 4 | |
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