Leech is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LEECH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cling to and drain
• habitually exploit or rely on
• See Leach, v. t.
• To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
• To bleed by the use of leeches.
• draw blood
• use leeches to suck the blood of
NOUN:
• a bloodsucking annelid worm
• an aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. Many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators.
• a person who extorts profit from or sponges on others
• a doctor or healer.
• the after or leeward edge of a fore-and-aft sail, the leeward edge of a spinnaker, or a vertical edge of a square sail.
• bloodsucking worm
• See 2d Leach.
• 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.
• carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cling to and feed upon or drain

Words related to LEECH

leeched13 leeches12 leeching14 leechlike18

Words that contain LEECH

fleech14 sleech11 leeched13 leechee12 leeches12 sleechy15 fleeched17 fleeches16 leechdom16 leechees13 leeching14 sleeches13 fleeching18 leechdoms17 leechlike18 sleechier14 fleechings19 fleechment20 horseleech18 leechcraft20 sleechiest15 fleechments21 leechcrafts21 horseleeches20

How to use LEECH in a sentence

• Some tins, each with lids fitted tight as a leech, For you, with blest water to fill.
• Punch without JOHN LEECH is, as the Irishman said, unthinkable.
• He had learned to put up medicines, to leech, cup, and bleed.
• He said, the last thing that they had enjoined upon him, on leaving Leech Lake, was to solicit from me another trader.
• The childish incidents and sayings which Leech illustrated were, I believe, always taken from real life.
• Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, by Margaret Leech.
• Here comes Lieutenant Nicot, who has some fame as a leech.
• Then I minded a small black cat that belonged to our leech at Bures in the old days.
• But Ailwin came not, and I grew impatient, and went to the cottage where he dwelt as the leech, at the head of the little street towards our hall.
• Thus, as John Leech found out, the country in July is almost as dreadful at night as the town.
• On the eastern side of the river there was only a feeble glimmer from a window where some chanting leech stood by a bedside, or where a feast was still on.
• Then I would have spoken, leech or no leech, to denounce him, for the Maid had no memory of his face, and knew him not for the false friar taken at St.
• We were much plagued by a small kind of leech, which dropped on us from the leaves of the trees, and got withinside our clothes.
• THE WHITE LEECH I woke one morning from a profound sleep, with one of my hands very painful.
• Hana would poison Iwa through this treacherous leech.
• I have already sent off to the mainland, to fetch a leech famous for his skill in the use of herbs.
• A leech, for whom he had despatched a neighbour, came in as I rose, and taking my place, presently restored her to consciousness.
• Leech the attorney, for his forbearance of one hundred, which he solicited me to take when I had no need.
• A dozen times in intervals of leisure I reached down the bottle from its shelf and studied my one remaining leech.
• Once in the good graces of the millionaire, he said to himself, he would stick to him like a leech.
• Then Gawaine was borne into a castle and unarmed him, and laid him in a rich bed, and a leech found that he might live, and to be whole within a month.
• RIGHT SO the king and he departed, and went unto an hermit that was a good man and a great leech.
• Every man he meets is a scoundrel, and every woman a leech.
• But I never heard Leech spoken of otherwise in bohemia than with affectionate admiration, although many of us seemed to think that his best work was done.
• Punch is Leech himself, and nothing she does can ever be amiss in his eyes! Sometimes, indeed, she is seriously transfixed herself, and bids Mr.
• It is inevitable, however unfortunate it may be for me, that I should be compared with my two great predecessors, Leech and Keene, whom I have just been comparing to each other.
• Ragnar had needed no leech, had his quick eye not saved him from that thrust.
• A long consultation was held with the prior and a monk who had acted as his leech, as to the best plan of getting Cuthbert beyond the walls of the city.
• If you successfully would preach, Be sure a text to take, And stick unto it like a leech Until your point you make.
• From Lake Winnibigoshish to the point where it receives the discharge of Leech Lake, the river flows through an open savannah, from a quarter of a mile to a mile in width.
• With Illustrations from Sketches by Leech and Thackeray.
• Cobra-poison none may leech, Even so with Cobra-speech.

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