What is the name meaning of LEECH. Phrases containing LEECH
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LEECH
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English : variant spelling of Leach.Irish (Galway) : English name adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Maol Mhaodhóg (see Logue).
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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.
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v. t.
To bleed by the use of leeches.
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.
n.
The border or edge at the side of a sail.
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A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
n.
The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
a.
Of or pertaining to the leeches.
n.
A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
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.
v. t.
To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
n. pl.
An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.
n.
A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech.
imp. & p. p.
of Leech
n.
The art of healing; skill of a physician.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Leech
n.
A bloodsucker, or leech.
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A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
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A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
v. i.
To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
n.
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
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A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.