The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift
for themselves. --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster]
2. To furnish or adorn with any soft covering.
[1913 Webster]
Your master, whose chin is not yet fledged. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
fledging — index amateur Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
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