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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (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.

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  • noun 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.

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French filandres, from Latin filum thread.

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