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

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

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..

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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