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

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..

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..

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

Bowline :: Bowline (n.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled..

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

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

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

Leech :: Leech (v. t.) See Leach, v. t..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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