Leechname

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  A surname originating as an occupation, derived from the profession leech, a former word for a physician.

leechnoun詞源 1/ˈliːt͡ʃ/

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  A typically aquatic blood-sucking annelid of the subclass Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

  • The leech on his leg had swelled to more than five inches long, puffed and swollen on his blood.
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  A person who derives advantage from others in a parasitic fashion.

  • 'Wrecked his body and his mind, no use to hisself or his family or nobody, just a leech on society'.
  • At this point, I felt this man was a leech. I suspected that he had spent a lifetime living off the good will of women that he met.
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  datedmedicinesciencesA glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.

leechverb詞源 1/ˈliːt͡ʃ/

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

  • This had to be leeched, and lanced, and doctored with ointments and poultices for several weeks, till I was almost driven to despair, - for the weather was at length fine, and I was tantalized by seeing grand butterflies flying past my door, and thinking of the twenty or thirty new species of insects that I ought to be getting every day.
  • The poppy made him sleep and while he slept they leeched him to drain off the bad blood.
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  To drain (resources) without giving back.

  • Near-synonyms: mooch, suck down
  • Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.

leechnoun詞源 2/ˈliːt͡ʃ/

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  archaicA physician.

  • Many skillful leeches him abide to salve his hurts.
  • The word Physitian we do vulgarly abuse (as we doe very many other(s)) for a Leech , or Medicus.
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  lifestylepaganismreligionA healer.

  • 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
  • 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.

leechverb詞源 3/ˈliːt͡ʃ/

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  archaicrareTo treat, cure or heal.

  • 1564, Accounts of Louth Corporalː Paid for leeching.. my horses very sick.
  • 1566–74, Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotlandː To one man (that) broke his leg in Strivelin … Item to the man that leecheth him.

leechnoun詞源 4/ˈliːt͡ʃ/

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  nauticaltransportThe vertical edge of a square sail.

  • To help combat these problems, almost all sailmakers trim the leeches of their headsails to a hollow or concave profile and enclose a LEECHLINE within the leech tabling.
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  nauticaltransportThe aft edge of a triangular sail.

  • Trim the leech of the jib parallel to the main by watching the slot between the mainsail and the jib.