Word Meanings - LEACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

LEECHCRAFT
The art of healing; skill of a physician. Chaucer.
LEECH
See LEACH
HORSE-LEECHERY
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
PALEECHINOIDEA
An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palæechini.
COWLEECH
One who heals disease of cows; a cow doctor.
COWLEECHING
Healing the distemper of cows.
HORSE-LEECH
A large blood-sucking leech , of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses. 2. A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.