Leech

[liːtʃ] or [litʃ]

解释:

(noun.) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.

(noun.) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage.

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解释:

(n.) See 2d Leach.

(v. t.) See Leach, v. t.

(n.) The border or edge at the side of a sail.

(n.) A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.

(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.

(n.) A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.

(v. t.) To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.

(v. t.) To bleed by the use of leeches.

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解释:

n. a blood-sucking worm: a physician.—v.t. to apply leeches to.—ns. Leech′craft Leech′dom.

n. the edge of a sail at the sides.

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