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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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