filanders Meaning, Definition & Usage

Fil"an*ders noun plural
Etymology
F. filandres, fr. L. filum thread.
Definitions
  1. (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 1913