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

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

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

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

Gill :: Gill (n.) A 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Hirudinea :: Hirudinea (n. pl.) An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei..

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

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

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.

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

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