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imp. & p. p. of Flee.

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly. Hfledge with wings. Milton.

A young bird just fledged.

Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges. Purfled work (Arch.), delicate tracery, especially in Gothic architecture.

Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.

Provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles; as, a truffled turkey.

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

Not ruffled or agitated; smooth; calm; tranquil; quiet. Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea. Addison.

he sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] Shak. And with her fled away without abode. Spenser.

At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. "They fled amain." Holinshed.

An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families]. Thackeray.

to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott.…

ful punishment, as a recreant knight. [Obs.] He by the heels him hung upon a tree, And baffled so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see. Spenser.

The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

Vanquished; conquered; baffled.

To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up. Bemuffled with the externals of religion. Sterne.

urishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith.

To befool; to trick. [Obs.] I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems. Beau. & Fl.

A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion. Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea, when not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface. Addison.