2. To furnish or adorn with any soft covering.

Your master, whose chin is not yet fledged.

Shak.

Fledge"ling (?), n. A young bird just fledged.

Flee (fl), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fled (fld); p. pr. & vb. n. Fleeing.]

[OE. fleon, fleen, AS. fleÛn (imperf. fle·h); akin to D. vlieden, OHG.

& OS. fliohan, G. fliehen, Icel. flja (imperf. fli), Dan. flye, Sw.

fly (imperf. flydde), Goth. ˛liuhan. √84. Cf. Flight.] To run

away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly

manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted,

making the verb transitive.

[He] cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.

Shak.

Flee fornication.