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

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..

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

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

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.

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..

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

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

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..

Gill :: Gill (n.) A leech.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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