leech

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1. leech - Noun

2. leech - Verb

3. Leech - Proper noun

Meaning

See 2d Leach.

See Leach, v. t.

The border or edge at the side of a sail.

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

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

To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.

To bleed by the use of leeches.

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I will love you as the manatee loves the head of lettuce and as the dark spot loves the leopard, as the leech loves the ankle of a wader and as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. Daniel Handler

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech. Chris Brown

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. Boris Johnson

APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle. Ambrose Bierce

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. Samuel Butler (novelist)

The leech that does not let go even when it is filled, dies on the dry land. Nigerian Proverb

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