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Webster 1913 Edition
Filanders
Fil′an-ders
,Noun.
pl.
[F.
filandres
, fr. L. filum
thread.] (Falconry)
A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; – called also
backworm
. Sir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Filanders
FIL'ANDERS
, n.A disease in hawks, consisting of filaments of coagulated blood; also, small worms wrapped in a thin skin or net, near the reins of a hawk.