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Gill :: Gill (n.) A leech.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clepsine :: Clepsine (n.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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-leech :: Horse-leech (n.) A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses..

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

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

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