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

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

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..

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

Ringtail :: Ringtail (n.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leech :: Leech (v. t.) To bleed by the use of leeches.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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