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Definition of Filanders
1. n. pl. 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.
Definition of Filanders
1. Noun. (context: falconry) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small thread-like worms and of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Filanders
1. filander [n] - See also: filander
Medical Definition of Filanders
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Filanders
Literary usage of Filanders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"Yon may know when a hawk is troubled wiih the filanders by her poverty, by her
ruffling her train, by her (training the fiil or perch with her pounces, ..."
2. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"Filanders, arc alfo worms as fm.ill as thread, and about an inch long, that lie
wrapt up in a thin fkin or net, near the reins of an hawk, apart from either ..."
3. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Filanders, in entomology and falconry, are worms as small as thread, and about
an inch long, that lie wrapt up in a thin skin or net, near the reins of a ..."
4. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"The filanders at probably thread worms ; worms thin as » thread ; from the L.
Filum, a thread. 'Brown. ..."
5. The Gentleman's Recreation: In Four Parts, Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling by Nicholas Cox, John Manwood (1721)
"... Complexions and Smells 204 f Worms 208 Of the Filanders ibid. Inother approved
medicine for Filanders ,ox Warms in I fafe and ..."
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