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LEACH
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English
English : occupational name for a physician, Old English lǣce, from the medieval medical practice of ‘bleeding’, often by applying leeches to the sick person.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a boggy stream, from an Old English læcc, or a habitational name from Eastleach or Northleach in Gloucestershire, named with the same Old English element.
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English
English : occupational name for a physician’s servant, from Leach 1 + Middle English man ‘manservant’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from Old English læcc, læce (see Leach) + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.English : unflattering nickname for a lecher, Middle English lech(o)ur (Old French leceor). Reaney comments: ‘The surname is rare, probably usually disguised as Leger’.German (Letscher) : habitational name for someone from Letsch, near Bensberg, Rhineland, or various other places such as Letsche, Letschin, Letschow, etc. See also Letsch.
Surname or Lastname
English (Northumberland, Durham, Cumbria)
English (Northumberland, Durham, Cumbria) : northern variant of Leachman.
Boy/Male
Irish
Servant.
Male
Irish
Short form of Irish Gaelic Maeleachlainn, LEACHLAINN means "devotee of Saint Seachnall."
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English
English : variant spelling of Leach 1.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Leach 2.English : topographic name from an Old English element læcc, lecc ‘boggy stream’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Lach Dennis or Lache in Cheshire.
Male
Irish
Pet form of Irish Leachlainn, LANTY means "devotee of Saint Seachnall."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Leach.Irish (Galway) : English name adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Maol Mhaodhóg (see Logue).
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n.
See Leech, a physician.
v. t.
To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.
n.
The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash).
n.
A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.
v. t.
To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
n.
Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant.
n.
See 2d Leach.
imp. & p. p.
of Leach
v. t.
See Leach, v. t.
a.
See Leachy.
v. t.
To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
n.
A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.
v. & n.
See Leach.
n.
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
n.
See 3d Leech.
n.
Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Leach
v. i.
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
n.
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
a.
Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.