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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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.) To bleed by the use of leeches.

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

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

Leech :: Leech (n.) Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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