Usually means: Parasitic worm, sucks blood, aquatic.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. leech: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. leech, leech, leech: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leech, leech: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leech: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leech: Vocabulary.com
  6. Leech, leech: Wordnik
  7. leech: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Leech, leech: Wiktionary
  9. leech: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. leech: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. leech: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. leech: Dictionary.com
  13. leech (1), leech (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. leech: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Leech (Masters of the Universe), Leech (comics), Leech (computing), Leech (disambiguation), Leech, The Leech: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Leech: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. leech: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. leech: Rhymezone
  19. Leech: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. leech: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. leech: Free Dictionary
  22. leech: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. leech: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. leech: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leech: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. leech: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)
  4. leech: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Leech: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. leech: Medical dictionary
  5. Leech: Drug Medical Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leech: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  2. Leech: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See leeched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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