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

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

Cocoon :: Cocoon (n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hirudo :: Hirudo (n.) A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech..

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

Leech :: 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..

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..

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

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.

Annulata :: Annulata (n. pl.) A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida..

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

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