"leech" Definition

Definitions for the word "leech" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
See 2d Leach.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
See Leach, v. t.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The border or edge at the side of a sail.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To bleed by the use of leeches.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 bloodsucking worm formerly much used medically. 2 person who sponges on others. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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