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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 : variant spelling of Leach.Irish (Galway) : English name adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Maol Mhaodhóg (see Logue).
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Tamil
Success, Fulfilment, Money and good luck
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Muslim
Mehndi, Fragrance
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Arthurian Legend
Arthur's queen.
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Indian
Perfect in Accounts
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English
English : variant spelling of Fulham, a habitational name from Fulham, now part of Greater London, recorded in Domesday Book as Fuleham, from an Old English personal name Fulla + hamm ‘land in a river bend’. Both forms of the name have been recorded in Ireland, in County Dublin, since the 13th century.
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Muslim
Indian saint in 1440, Great, Famous sufi saint
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Tamil
Collected
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Biblical
Brightness, departing.
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Muslim
Bringer of good tidings
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Italian
Italian name derived from the Roman family name Velius, VELIA means "concealed."
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n.
A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.
n.
A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
v. t.
To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
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The art of healing; skill of a physician.
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An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.
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A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech.
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A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
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The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
v. i.
To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
n.
A bloodsucker, or leech.
n.
Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.
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The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
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A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
a.
Of or pertaining to the leeches.
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A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
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A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
v. t.
To bleed by the use of leeches.
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The border or edge at the side of a sail.