Definition of leech

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Leech (n.) See 2d Leach.

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Cowleech :: Cowleech (n.) One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.
Leach :: Leach (n.) See Leech, a physician..
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..
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..
Leech :: Leech (n.) A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
Ringtail :: Ringtail (n.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
Hirudo :: Hirudo (n.) A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech..
Horse-leechery :: Horse-leechery (n.) The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses..
Hirudine :: Hirudine (a.) Of or pertaining to the leeches.
Leech :: Leech (v. t.) To bleed by the use of leeches.
Leech :: Leech (n.) Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species..
Leech :: Leech (v. t.) See Leach, v. t..
Sanguisuge :: Sanguisuge (n.) A bloodsucker, or leech..
Clepsine :: Clepsine (n.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms..
Horse-leech :: Horse-leech (n.) A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
Acetabulum :: Acetabulum (n.) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
Leeching :: Leeching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leec.
Bloodsucker :: Bloodsucker (n.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species..
Hirudinea :: Hirudinea (n. pl.) An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei..
Brail :: Brail (n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling..
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