Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fledge

Fledge , adjective

[Old English flegge, flygge; akin to Dutch vlug, German flugge, flucke, Old High German flucchi, Icelandic fleygr, and to English fly. r84. See Fly, v. i.]

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
His shoulders, fledge with wings. — Milton

Fledge , verb, transitive and intransitive

1.
To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.
The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift for themselves. — L'Estrange
2.
To furnish or adorn with any soft covering.
Your master, whose chin is not yet fledged. — Shakespeare