Leech

Noun

 * 1) An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
 * 2) A person who derives profit from others, in a parasitic fashion.

Verb

 * 1)  To apply a leech medicinally.
 * 2)  To drain (resources) without giving back.
 *  Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.

Derived terms

 * leecher

Noun

 * 1)  A physician.
 * 2) * 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 11:
 * He coughed sputum stained with blood, and a scraping, crackling noise came from his chest, quite audible to anyone in the room. ‘Lungs possibly not too good,’ the leech said.
 * 1)  A healer in Heathenry.
 * 2) * Swain Wodening, “Scandinavian Craft Lesson 6: Runic Divination”, Theod Magazine, volume 3, number 4
 * In ancient times runesters were a specialized class separate from that of the witch or ordinary spell caster (much as the other specialists such as the leech or healer and the seithkona were different from a witch), and even today many believe it takes years of training to become adept at using the runes in spell work.
 * 1) * 1900, Augustus Henry Keane, Man, Past and Present, The University Press (Cambridge)
 * Their functions are threefold, those of the medicine-man (the leech, or healer by supernatural means); of the soothsayer (the prophet through communion with the invisible world); and of the priest, especially in his capacity as exorcist
 * 1) * 2003, Brian Froud and Ari Berk, The Runes of Elfland, Pavillion Books, ISBN 1 86205 647 1, page 22
 * "Leech?" "Not another doctor".
 * 1) * 2004, Runic John, The Book of Seithr, Capall Bann Publishing, ISBN 186163 299 0, page 282
 * There are many kinds of "Leech" or "healer" as there are healing techniques, some are more powerful than others and some are very specific to certain illnesses and complaints; some use potions and unguents, others crystals and stones, others galdr and some work their healing from within the hidden realms themselves.

Derived terms

 * leechcraft

Noun

 * 1)  The vertical edge of a square sail
 * 2)  The aft edge of a triangular sail

Verbs for Leech
apply—; breed—es; employ—; fatten—; — absorbs; —adheres; —bleeds; —clings; — cures; —draws; —evacuates; —extracts; —heals; —relieves; —remedies; —sticks; — sucks.

Thesaurus
Chilopoda, Chordata, Doctor of Medicine, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, GP, MD, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, adherent, adhesive, allopath, allopathist, attending physician, barnacle, beat, bedbug, blackmailer, bleed, bloodsucker, boltrope, bramble, brier, bulldog, burr, canvas, cement, clew, cloth, coroner, country doctor, cringle, croaker, crowd of sail, cup, deadbeat, decal, decalcomania, doc, doctor, earing, extortionist, family doctor, foot, fore-and-aft sail, freeloader, general practitioner, give a transfusion, glue, gunk, harpy, head, house physician, intern, let blood, limpet, luff, medical attendant, medical examiner, medical man, medical practitioner, medico, molasses, mosquito, mucilage, muslin, parasite, paste, perfuse, phlebotomize, physician, physician in ordinary, plain sail, plaster, predator, press of sail, prickle, profiteer, racketeer, rag, raptor, reduced sail, reef point, reefed sail, remora, resident, resident physician, sail, sawbones, shakedown artist, shark, smell-feast, sponge, sponger, square sail, sticker, syrup, thorn, tick, transfuse, vampire, vulture, wood tick

Etymology 1
From leche:, from  læce:, akin to  lake:.

Etymology 2
From leche:, from  læce:, from, from. Cognate with letza:,  laki:,  lahhi:,  læge:,  𐌻𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃:,  líaig:.

Etymology 3
lek:, leche:, lyche:, from lík: ‘leech-line’, from  (compare West Frisian lyk: ‘band’, Dutch lijk: ‘boltrope’, Middle High German geleich: ‘joint, limb’), from  ‘to bind’ (compare Latin ligare: ‘to tie’, Ukrainian налигати:, Albanian lidh: ‘to bind’).

Noun

 * Afrikaans: Bloedsuier
 * Albanian: rrodhe
 * Arabic: علقة
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: izain
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 螞蟥, 蚂蟥
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: pijavice
 * Danish: blodigle, igler
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: წურბელა (ts‘urbela)
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: જળો (jalō)
 * Hawaiian: mākoko, omo koko
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: जोंक (jōṅk)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: blóðsuga, iglur
 * Ido: sanguisugo
 * Indonesian: lintah


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 거머리
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dēle
 * Lithuanian: dėlė
 * Malayalam: നീരട്ട (nīraṭṭa), കാര്യസാദ്ധ്യത്തിനായി മറ്റൊരാളുമായി അടുപ്പം സ്ഥാപിക്കുന്ന ആള്‍
 * Mongolian: хануур хорхой
 * Navajo:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: sanguijuela, hirudíneo
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: அட்டை (aḍḍai)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: п'явка
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: gib, gibül
 * Yiddish: פּיאַווקע
 * Yiddish: פּיאַווקע

Noun

 * Finnish: takaliikki


 * Italian: balumina

Derived terms

 * leech line

Related terms

 * luff
 * foot

Adjective
leech


 * 1) low
 * 2) empty
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