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

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

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..

Annulata :: Annulata (n. pl.) A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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