a. [f. as prec. + -Y1.]

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  † 1.  a. Of wings: Furnished with feathers, feathered. b. Of young bees: Ready to fly. Obs.

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1583.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 27.

        Hee flitters swiftly with wynges ful fledgye beplumed
On Libye land seizing: ther he soone perfourmeth his erraund.
    Ibid., 31.
When they [bees] do foorth carry theyre yoong swarme fledggie to gathring:
Or cels ar farcing with dulce and delicat hoonnye.

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  2.  Covered with feathers, feathery.

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1818.  Keats, Staffa, 41.

        I have been the Pontif priest
Where the Waters never rest
Where a fledgy sea bird choir
Soars for ever.
    Ibid. (1819), Otho, II. ii. 102.
The swan, soft leaning on her fledgy breast,
When to the stream she launches, looks not back
With such a tender grace.

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