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Definition of leech

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Leach :: Leach (n.) See Leech, a physician..

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

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

Gill :: Gill (n.) A leech.

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..

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

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