Definition of leech

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

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Horse-leechery :: Horse-leechery (n.) The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses..
Bloodsucker :: Bloodsucker (n.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species..
Bdellomorpha :: Bdellomorpha (n.) An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams..
Touch :: Touch (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes..
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..
Sanguisuge :: Sanguisuge (n.) A bloodsucker, or leech..
Apoda :: Apoda (n.) A group of worms without appendages, as the leech..
Leech :: Leech (n.) The border or edge at the side of a sail.
Leech :: Leech (n.) A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum..
Brail :: Brail (n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling..
Leeched :: Leeched (imp. & p. p.) of Leec.
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..
Horse-leech :: Horse-leech (n.) A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
Cocoon :: Cocoon (n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms..
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.
Bdelloidea :: Bdelloidea (n. pl.) The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.
Cowleeching :: Cowleeching (n.) Healing the distemper of cows.
Leech :: Leech (n.) A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
Leach :: Leach (n.) See Leech, a physician..
Leech :: Leech (n.) See 2d Leach.
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