leech
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A typically aquatic blood-sucking annelid of the subclass Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
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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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figuradoA 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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antiquadoA glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
Etimologia
From Middle English leche (“blood-sucking worm”), from Old English lǣċe (“blood-sucking worm”), akin to Middle Dutch lāke ("blood-sucking worm"; > modern Dutch laak).
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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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figuradoTo drain (resources) without giving back.
Near-synonyms: mooch, suck down
Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.
Her daughter Astrid (new Tim Burton muse Jenna Ortega) barely speaks to her, and her greasy-haired boyfriend Rory (Justin Theroux, proving once again to be a comedic tour de force) obviously leeching off her fame and money
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arcaicoA 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.
1610, Bolton, Armoriesː As if an expert leech must needs be expert in the physicks (that is, in those speculations which concerne the workes of nature) the nearest word to fall with our tongue, yet not farre from the thing, was physitian.
Thus virtuous Orsin was endued / With learning, conduct, fortitude / Incomparable; and as the prince / Of poets, Homer, sung long since, / A skilful leech is better far, / Than half a hundred men of war [...]
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A 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.
"Leech?" "Not another doctor".
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.
Etimologia
From Middle English leche (“physician”), from Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”), from Proto-West Germanic *lākī, from Proto-Germanic *lēkijaz (“doctor”), of disputed origin, but usually thought to be connected with Proto-Celtic (compare Old Irish líaig (“doctor, physician”)); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”). Cognate with Old Frisian lētza (“physician”), Old Saxon lāki (“physician”), Old High German lāhhi (“doctor, healer”), Danish læge (“doctor, surgeon”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 (lēkeis, “physician”). Slavic words such as Serbo-Croatian ljèkār, Polish lekarz (“physician, doctor”) are usually considered to be borrowings from Germanic.
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arcaicoTo 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.
though there are many Pretenders to the Art of Farriering and Cow-leeching, yet many of them are very ignorant , especially in the Countrie
1850, Blackieː A disease that none may leech.
Etimologia
From Middle English lechen (“to cure, heal, treat”), from Middle English leche (“doctor, physician”). Compare Swedish läka (“to heal”).
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The 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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The 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.
Etimologia
From Middle English lek, leche, lyche, from Old Norse lík (“leechline”), from Proto-West Germanic *līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką (compare West Frisian lyk (“band”), Dutch lijk (“boltrope”), Middle High German geleich (“joint, limb”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- ‘to bind’ (compare Latin ligō (“tie, bind”), Ukrainian нали́гати (nalýhaty, “to bridle, fetter”), Albanian lidh (“to bind”), Hittite link- (caus. linganu-) ‘to swear’ (with -n- infix).
Formas
- plural
- leeches
- pretérito
- leeched
- particípio passado
- leeched
- gerúndio
- leeching
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- leeches
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