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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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Hirudine :: Hirudine (a.) Of or pertaining to the leeches.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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