What is the name meaning of LEACH. Phrases containing LEACH
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LEACH
Male
Irish
Pet form of Irish Leachlainn, LANTY means "devotee of Saint Seachnall."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Leach.Irish (Galway) : English name adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Maol Mhaodhóg (see Logue).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Leach 1.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Leach 2.English : topographic name from an Old English element læcc, lecc ‘boggy stream’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Lach Dennis or Lache in Cheshire.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a physician, Old English lǣce, from the medieval medical practice of ‘bleeding’, often by applying leeches to the sick person.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a boggy stream, from an Old English læcc, or a habitational name from Eastleach or Northleach in Gloucestershire, named with the same Old English element.
Boy/Male
Irish
Servant.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from Old English læcc, læce (see Leach) + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.English : unflattering nickname for a lecher, Middle English lech(o)ur (Old French leceor). Reaney comments: ‘The surname is rare, probably usually disguised as Leger’.German (Letscher) : habitational name for someone from Letsch, near Bensberg, Rhineland, or various other places such as Letsche, Letschin, Letschow, etc. See also Letsch.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a physician’s servant, from Leach 1 + Middle English man ‘manservant’.
Male
Irish
Short form of Irish Gaelic Maeleachlainn, LEACHLAINN means "devotee of Saint Seachnall."
Surname or Lastname
English (Northumberland, Durham, Cumbria)
English (Northumberland, Durham, Cumbria) : northern variant of Leachman.
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n.
See 3d Leech.
imp. & p. p.
of Leach
n.
A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.
n.
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
n.
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
v. t.
See Leach, v. t.
n.
See 2d Leach.
v. t.
To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
n.
A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.
n.
Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.
v. t.
To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
v. t.
To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.
n.
The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash).
a.
Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.
n.
See Leech, a physician.
v. i.
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
a.
See Leachy.
n.
Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Leach
v. & n.
See Leach.