a. [f. FLEDGE a. + -LESS.] Unfledged.

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1769.  J. Gerrard, in Monthly Rev., XLII. 185.

        For me his hand the fledgeless dove betray’d,
And to my lap the thorn’s first bloweth convey’d.

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1806.  J. Grahame, Birds Scotl., 602.

        In seven days more expect the fledgeless young,
Five gaping bills.

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1859.  Ld. Lytton, Wanderer (ed. 2), 97.

        The fledgeless nurslings of Regret,
  With beaks forever stretch’d for food:
But why should I forecount as yet
  The ravage of that vulture brood?

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