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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..

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

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

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

Brail :: Brail (n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Horse-leechery :: Horse-leechery (n.) The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses..

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

Annelida :: Annelida (n. pl.) A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chaetopoda, including the Oligochaeta or earthworms and Polychaeta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chaetopoda..

Bdelloidea :: Bdelloidea (n. pl.) The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.

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