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Leeching :: Leeching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leec.

Luff :: Luff (n.) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails..

Leech :: Leech (n.) A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum..

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

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

Brail :: Brail (n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling..

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..

Cowleeching :: Cowleeching (n.) Healing the distemper of cows.

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

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

Hirudinea :: Hirudinea (n. pl.) An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei..

Leechcraft :: Leechcraft (n.) The art of healing; skill of 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..

Apoda :: Apoda (n.) A group of worms without appendages, as the leech..

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

Clepsine :: Clepsine (n.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms..

Rhynchobdellea :: Rhynchobdellea (n. pl.) A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type..

Gill :: Gill (n.) A leech.

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

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

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