3. Get rid of the rats. Place unset, baited traps in a trap box on the rat path. Add new bait each day, and on the third day after the rats have started eating the bait, set the baited traps.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. The word filicide derives from the Latin words filius meaning son or filia meaning daughter and the suffix -cide meaning to kill, murder, or cause death.
1. a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril: filaments of gold. 2. the stalklike portion of a stamen, supporting the anther. 3. (in an incandescent lamp) the threadlike conductor, often of tungsten, that is heated to incandescence by the passage of current. 4. the heating element of a vacuum tube, resembling the filament in an incandescent lamp.