▸ noun: An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis. ▸ noun: (figuratively) A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion. ▸ noun: (medicine, dated) A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum. ▸ verb: (transitive, literally) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient. ▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively) To drain (resources) without giving back. ▸ noun: (archaic) A physician. ▸ noun: (Germanic paganism) A healer. ▸ verb: (archaic, rare) To treat, cure or heal. ▸ noun: (nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail. ▸ noun: (nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail. ▸ noun: A surname originating as an occupation, derived from the profession leech, a former word for a physician.
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