Leech
See 2d Leach.
See Leach, v. t.
The border or edge at the side of a sail.
A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
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.
A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
To bleed by the use of leeches.
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Leech Translations
leech in Dutch is bloedzuiger
leech in French is sangsue
leech in German is Blutegel, Egel
leech in Norwegian is igle
leech in Spanish is sanguijuela
leech in Swedish is igel, blodigel
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