Word Meaning

leech definition and meaning

n. See 2d Leach.
v. t. See Leach, v. t.
n. The border or edge at the side of a sail.
n. A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
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.
n. A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
v. t. To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
v. t. To bleed by the use of leeches.

Crossword clues for leech

- Aquatic worm
- Blood-sucking insect
- Blood-sucking parasite
- Blood-sucking worm
- Bloodsucker
- Bloodsucking parasite
- Bloodsucking worm
- Buffalo used to have internal parasite
- Clingy person
- Flee Chile, leaving file for bloodsucker
- Flee chiselling parasite inside
- Guy who is a bloodsucker
- Parasite
- Parasitic insect
- Person who lives off another
- Person who lives off others
- Person who sponges on others
- Shelter church centre while echoing medieval physician
- Shelter church from medieval physician
- Small church supports Lee as a sponging hanger-on
- Swamp Parasite