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Leech :: Leech (v. t.) To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds..

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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