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Leech :: Leech (v. t.) To bleed by the use of leeches.

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

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

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

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..

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

Leeching :: Leeching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leec.

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

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

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..

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

Leech :: Leech (n.) A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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