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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.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Gill :: Gill (n.) A leech.

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

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

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