LEECH
\lˈiːt͡ʃ], \lˈiːtʃ], \l_ˈiː_tʃ]\
Definitions of LEECH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"
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carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
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a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
By Princeton University
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draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"
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carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
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a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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See Leach, v. t.
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The border or edge at the side of a sail.
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A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
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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.
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A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
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To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
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To bleed by the use of leeches.
By Oddity Software
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See Leach, v. t.
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The border or edge at the side of a sail.
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A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
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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.
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A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
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To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
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To bleed by the use of leeches.
By Noah Webster.
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A worm furnished with a sucker, used in medicine for sucking blood; formerly, the name for a physician; one who gets all he can out of another.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To bleed with leeches; treat with medicine; heal.
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An aquatic worm used for drawing blood; bloodsucker.
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The edge of a square sail.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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