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

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

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

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..

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Gill :: Gill (n.) A leech.

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

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

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..

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

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

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