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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FILANDERS

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.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FILANDERS

Fil "an *ders, n. pl. Etym: [F. filandres, fr. L. filum thread. ](Falconry )

 

Defn: 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.