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Definition of leech

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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..

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

Hirudinea :: Hirudinea (n. pl.) An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei..

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

Gill :: Gill (n.) A leech.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..