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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Bdellomorpha :: Bdellomorpha (n.) An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams..

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

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

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

Paleechinoidea :: Paleechinoidea (n. pl.) An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palaeechini.

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

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