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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Rhynchobdellea :: Rhynchobdellea (n. pl.) A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type..

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