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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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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