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

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

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.

Leechcraft :: Leechcraft (n.) The art of healing; skill of a physician.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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