leech : Idioms & Phrases

• 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.

Webster 1913

Horse"-leech` noun

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) A large blood-sucking leech (Hæmopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
2. A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of blood-sucking leeches, which, in moist, tropical regions, live on land, and are often troublesome to man and beast.

Webster 1913

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

Webster 1913

• verb admire boundlessly and follow around
  
  • the groupies leeched onto the rock star

WordNet

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

Webster 1913

• noun large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting
  Hirudo medicinalis.
  

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