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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Gill :: Gill (n.) A leech.

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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