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

Rhynchobdellea :: Rhynchobdellea (n. pl.) A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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