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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gill :: Gill (n.) A leech.

Luff :: Luff (n.) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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