Chiefly pl. Forms: 5 fylaundris, 7 felanders, fillanders, -enders, fylanders, 6– filander(s. [a. OF. filandre:—popular L. *filandula, dim. f. (lāna) fīlanda wool to be spun.

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  The word is used in mod.F. for a gossamer thread, also for various fibres in animal and vegetable organisms.]

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  In plural, Thread-like intestinal worms causing a disease in hawks; the disease so caused.

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1486.  Bk. St. Albans, B vij b. A medecyne for wormys in an hawke wiche sekenesse is called the Fylaundris.

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1575.  Turberv., Faulconrie, 252. These Filanders (as the very name doth import,) are smal as threedess, & one quarter of an ynche long.

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1615.  Latham, Falconry, 7. These occasions of extraordinary and vntimely heat, may breed the Cray, and ingender the fillanders.

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a. 1682.  Sir T. Browne, Hawks, Misc. Tracts, v. (1684), 115. This, if any, may probably destroy that obstinate Disease of the Filander or Back-worm.

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1891.  Harting, Gloss., in Biol. Accipitraria, 222. Filanders, intestinal worms.

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