† sanguisugen.
Obsolete.
1. A blood-sucker (figurative).
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [noun] > rapacity > rapacious person
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c1540 Image Ipocrysy ii, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 431 That blody judge And Mighty sanguisuge, The Pope that is so huge, Is ever ther refuge.
2. A leech.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > leech
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leech-worm1794
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Hirudinea > member of (leech)
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1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. i. 23 Sanguisuges also serue to this purpose.
1599 A. Hume Epist. to G. Montcrieff in Hymnes sig. H3 As sanguisugs quhilk finds the feeding gud, Cleaues to the skin.
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