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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Bloodsucker :: Bloodsucker (n.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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