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leeching
leech 1 L0083600 (lēch)n.1. Any of various chiefly aquatic carnivorous or bloodsucking annelid worms of the class (or subclass) Hirudinea, of which one species (Hirudo medicinalis) was formerly widely used by physicians for therapeutic bloodletting.2. One that preys on or clings to another; a parasite.3. Archaic A physician.v. leeched, leech·ing, leech·es v.tr.1. To bleed with leeches.2. To drain the essence or exhaust the resources of.v.intr. To attach oneself to another in the manner of a leech.
[Middle English leche, physician, leech, from Old English lǣce; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]
leech 2 L0083600 (lēch)n. Nautical 1. Either vertical edge of a square sail.2. The after edge of a fore-and-aft sail.
[Middle English leche, probably from Middle Low German līk, leech line; see leig- in Indo-European roots.]leechingThe use of bloodsucking leeches for medical purposes, such as drawing off blood or preventing coagulation at a wound.EncyclopediaSeeleechleeching
leech·ing (lēch'ing), The former practice of applying leeches to the body to draw blood for therapeutic purposes. |