Word Meanings - FLEDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly. Hfledge with wings. Milton.

Related words: (words related to FLEDGE)

• FEATHERNESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• FEATHER-FEW
  Feverfew.
• FEATHER-VEINED
  Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
• FEATHER-FOIL
  An aquatic plant , having finely divided leaves.
• FEATHER-EDGED
  Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.
• FEATHERED
  Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. (more info) 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered
• FEATHER-HEADED
  Giddy; frivolous; foolish. G. Eliot.
• FEATHERLY
  Like feathers. Sir T. Browne.
• FEATHERY
  Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow. Milton. Ye feathery people of mid air. Barry Cornwall.
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• FEATHER-HEELED
  Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.
• FEATHER-HEAD
  A frivolous or featherbrained person. H. James.
• FEATHERBONE
  A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.
• FURNISHER
  One who supplies or fits out.
• FEATHER-BRAINED
  Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• FEATHER
  A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline. 7. A thin wedge driven between the two
• FEATHERINESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• PINFEATHERED
  Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• SEA FEATHER
  Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
• PINFEATHER
  A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.
• DISFURNISH
  To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
• RATTLEWINGS
  The golden-eye.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• MIDFEATHER
  A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.