[pa. pple. of FLY v.1] Used adjectively in senses of the vb. Also with out, and with defining word prefixed, as far-flown, new-flown.

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1608.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. Tropheis, 1048.

        The (Trees-brood) Bar-geese, mid th’ Hebridian wave,
Vnto his Tune their far-flow’n wings doo wave.

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1691.  Taylor, Behmen’s Theos. Phil., Threefold Life, xiii. 309. The flown out Will hates that whence it sprung, because it hath got a contrary Will, and it self proceeds to its highest number.

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1813.  T. Busby, Lucretius, i. 300.

        Hence new-flown birds the woods with music fill,
And vernal raptures from the branches thrill.

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1865.  Swinburne, Atalanta, 6.

          Althæa.  Night, a black hound, follows the white fawn day,
Swifter than dreams the white flown feet of sleep.

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1877.  Bryant, Odyss., V. 551.

                  But when he breathed again,
And his flown senses had returned, he loosed
The veil that Ino gave him from his breast,
And to the salt flood cast it.

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