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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Gill :: Gill (n.) A leech.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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