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adj
Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable
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verb
To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To decorate with feathers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
grow feathers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: feather
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
verb
decorate with feathers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: flight
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
verb
feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent
History
From Middle English flegge, fligge, flygge, from Old English *flyċġe (“able to fly, fledged”) (attested in *unflyċġe, unfligge (“unfledged”)), from Proto-West Germanic *flugi, from Proto-Germanic *flugjaz (“able to fly, fledged”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to run, flow, be swift, flee, fly”). Cognates From Proto-Germanic: Dutch vlug (“fledged, able to fly, nimble, swift”), Low German flügg (“fledged”), German flügge, German flücke (“fledged”), Icelandic fleygur (“able to fly, fledged”)
