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LEECH
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.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Leach.Irish (Galway) : English name adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Maol Mhaodhóg (see Logue).
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Girl/Female
Assamese, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Lotus
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
A Raaga
Girl/Female
Tamil
Enchanting
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Perfection
Girl/Female
Australian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Swedish
Jehovah Increases; He will Increase; Feminine of Joseph
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire called Haseley, Heasley in the Isle of Wight, or North Heasley in North Molton, Devon, all named with Old English hæsel ‘hazel’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘glade’. The surname is now found predominantly in northern Ireland.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Useful, Helpful
Boy/Male
Indian
Attract
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Punjabi, Sikh
Flower; As Pure as Jasmine Flower
Girl/Female
Biblical
Those who dwell in villages.
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LEECH
v. i.
To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
v. t.
To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Leech
n.
A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
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.
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
n.
A bloodsucker, or leech.
n. pl.
An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.
n.
The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
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.
n.
A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech.
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.
v. t.
To bleed by the use of leeches.
n.
A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
n.
The art of healing; skill of a physician.
n.
The border or edge at the side of a sail.
n.
A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
imp. & p. p.
of Leech
n.
A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.