noun. Any of various chiefly aquatic carnivorous or bloodsucking annelid worms of the class (or subclass) Hirudinea, of which one species (Hirudo medicinalis) was formerly widely used by physicians for therapeutic bloodletting.

noun. One that preys on or clings to another; a parasite.

noun. A physician.

intransitive verb. To bleed with leeches.

intransitive verb. To drain the essence or exhaust the resources of.

intransitive verb. To attach oneself to another in the manner of a leech.

noun. Either vertical edge of a square sail.

noun. The after edge of a fore-and-aft sail.

To treat with medicaments; heal; doctor.

noun. A physician; a medical practitioner; a professor of the art of healing.

To apply leeches to, for the purpose of bleeding.

noun. Nautical, the perpendicular or sloping edge of a sail.

noun. See leach.

noun. An aquatic, more or less parasitic, and blood-sucking worm; a suctorial or discophorous annelid of the order Hirudinea.

noun. Figuratively, one who, as it were, sucks the blood or steals the substance of his victim, or persistently holds on for sordid gain.

noun. See 2d leach.

transitive verb. See leach, v. t.

noun. The border or edge at the side of a sail.

noun. a line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by.

noun. that part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed.

transitive verb. To treat as a surgeon; to doctor.

transitive verb. To bleed by the use of leeches.

noun. A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.

noun. 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.

noun. A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.

noun. a less powerful European leech (Hæmopis vorax), commonly attacking the membrane that lines the inside of the mouth and nostrils of animals that drink at pools where it lives.

noun. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

noun. A person who derives profit from others, in a parasitic fashion.

verb. To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.

verb. To drain (resources) without giving back.

noun. A physician.

noun. A healer.

noun. The vertical edge of a square sail.

noun. The aft edge of a triangular sail.

noun. a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

noun. carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

verb. draw blood

"And Dick Cheney, you fuckin leech, tell them your plans"

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