[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.
1608. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. Tropheis, 1048.
The (Trees-brood) Bar-geese, mid th Hebridian wave, | |
Vnto his Tune their far-flown wings doo wave. |
1691. Taylor, Behmens 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.
1813. T. Busby, Lucretius, i. 300.
Hence new-flown birds the woods with music fill, | |
And vernal raptures from the branches thrill. |
1865. Swinburne, Atalanta, 6.
Althæa. Night, a black hound, follows the white fawn day, | |
Swifter than dreams the white flown feet of sleep. |
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. |