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- Leech - n. - See 2d Leach.
- Leech - v. t. - See Leach, v. t.
- Leech - n. - The border or edge at the side of a sail.
- Leech - n. - A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
- 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.
- Leech - n. - A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
- Leech - v. t. - To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
- Leech - v. t. - To bleed by the use of leeches.
- Leechcraft - n. - The art of healing; skill of a physician.
- Leeched - imp. & p. p. - of Leech
- Leeching - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Leech
- 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.
- Leech - v. t. - To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
- Touch - v. i. - To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- Horse-leech - n. - A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
- Bloodsucker - n. - Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.
- Luff - n. - The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
- Ringtail - n. - A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
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