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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 inhawks , characterized by the presence of smallthread -likeworms and offilaments ofcoagulated blood , from therupture of avein .
Etymologies
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French filandres, from Latin filum thread.
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