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Leach :: Leach (n.) See 3d Leech.

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

Sanguisuge :: Sanguisuge (n.) A bloodsucker, or leech..

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

Acetabulum :: Acetabulum (n.) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.

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

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

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

Hirudine :: Hirudine (a.) Of or pertaining to the leeches.

Gill :: Gill (n.) A leech.

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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