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Leech :: Leech (v. t.) To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds..

Gill :: Gill (n.) A leech.

Horse-leechery :: Horse-leechery (n.) The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses..

Leeched :: Leeched (imp. & p. p.) of Leec.

Annulata :: Annulata (n. pl.) A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida..

Bloodsucker :: Bloodsucker (n.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species..

Horse-leech :: Horse-leech (n.) A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.

Leech :: Leech (n.) The border or edge at the side of a sail.

Annelida :: Annelida (n. pl.) A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chaetopoda, including the Oligochaeta or earthworms and Polychaeta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chaetopoda..

Cocoon :: Cocoon (n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms..

Horse-leech :: Horse-leech (n.) A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses..

Leach :: Leach (n.) See Leech, a physician..

Malacobdella :: Malacobdella (n.) A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha..

Leech :: Leech (n.) See 2d Leach.

Bdelloidea :: Bdelloidea (n. pl.) The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.

Hirudo :: Hirudo (n.) A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech..

Bloodletting :: Bloodletting (n.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection..

Touch :: Touch (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes..

Cowleech :: Cowleech (n.) One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.

Leech :: Leech (n.) A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.

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