Word Meanings - UNFLEDGED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not fledged; not feathered; hence, not fully developed; immature. Dryden.

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• FEATHERNESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• FEATHER-FEW
  Feverfew.
• FEATHER-VEINED
  Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
• FEATHER-FOIL
  An aquatic plant , having finely divided leaves.
• FLEDGELING
  A young bird just fledged.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• FEATHER-EDGED
  Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.
• FEATHERED
  Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. (more info) 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered
• FEATHER-HEADED
  Giddy; frivolous; foolish. G. Eliot.
• DEVELOPABLE
  Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface , a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.
• IMMATURED
  Immature.
• FEATHERLY
  Like feathers. Sir T. Browne.
• FEATHERY
  Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow. Milton. Ye feathery people of mid air. Barry Cornwall.
• DEVELOP
  1. To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function;
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• IMMATURE
  1. Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans. "An ill-measured and immature counsel." Bacon. 2. Premature; untimely; too early; as, an
• DEVELOPMENTAL
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• FEATHER-HEELED
  Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.
• FULLY
  In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition. Fully committed , committed to prison for trial, in distinction from being detained for
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• PINFEATHERED
  Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• HEALTHFULLY
  In health; wholesomely.
• SEA FEATHER
  Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
• FLEDGE
  Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly. Hfledge with wings. Milton.
• RAPFULLY
  Violently.
• CAREFULLY
  In a careful manner.