What is the name meaning of LEECH. Phrases containing LEECH
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LEECH
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English
English : variant spelling of Leach.Irish (Galway) : English name adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Maol Mhaodhóg (see Logue).
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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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LEECH
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Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Peace
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English (Cambridgeshire)
English (Cambridgeshire) : probably a metonymic occupational name for someone employed in a cattle shed, or a topographic name for someone who lived by one, from a reduced form of Middle English bulehus ‘bull house’, from bul(l)e, bol(l)e ‘bull’ + h(o)us ‘house’.Latvian : nickname or metonymic occupational name from bullis ‘bull’.
Girl/Female
Australian, Danish, Dutch, German, Netherlands, Swedish
God is Gracious; God has Shown Favor
Boy/Male
Muslim
Vocal cords
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English
English : habitational name from either of two places so called, in Cumbria and Nottinghamshire, from Old English hæsel ‘hazel’ (influenced by Old Norse hesli) + Old English lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
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Tamil
Golden creeper
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Australian, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Modern, Telugu
Princess
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English
English : patronymic from the personal name Grigg.
Boy/Male
Teutonic
Mighty raven.
Girl/Female
Indian
The rainy cloud, Down pour
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v. t.
To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
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.
a.
Of or pertaining to the leeches.
v. i.
To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
n.
The art of healing; skill of a physician.
n.
A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
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The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
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 large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
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A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
n.
A bloodsucker, or leech.
n.
A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
n. pl.
An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.
n.
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
n.
A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech.
n.
A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
imp. & p. p.
of Leech
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Leech
n.
The border or edge at the side of a sail.
v. t.
To bleed by the use of leeches.