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Definition of leech

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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..

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Leechcraft :: Leechcraft (n.) The art of healing; skill of a physician.

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

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

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

Leach :: Leach (n.) See 3d Leech.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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 farrier; a veterinary surgeon.

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

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

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

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.

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

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