English-Thai Dictionary

leech

N ปลิง ดูด เลือด  ทาก  pring-dud-luead

 

leech

VI ทำตัว เป็น กาฝาก  เกาะ กิน  cling feed upon tam-tua-pen-ka-fak

 

leech

VT ใช้ ปลิง ดูด เลือด ออก  ดูด เลือด  chai-pring-dud-luad-ook

 

leech onto

PHRV ติดตาม ไม่ หยุด (โดย ไม่ได้ เชิญ มา  เฝ้า ตาม ไม่หยุดหย่อน  tid-tam-mai-yod

 

leechcraft

N แพทย์ศาสตร์  pad-sard

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LEECH

n. 1. A physician; a professor of the art of healing.
[This word, in the United States, is nearly or wholly obsolete. Even cow leech is not used. ]
2. A blood-sucker; an animal of the genus Hirudo, a species of aquatic worm, which is used in the medical art for topical bleeding. One large species of this animal is called horse-leech.
3. In seamen's language, the border or edge of a sail, which is sloping or perpendicular; as the fore-leech, the after-leech, etc.

 

LEECH-CRAFT

n.The art of healing. Obs.

 

LEECH-LINE

n.Leech-lines are ropes fastened to the middle of the leeches of the main-sail and fore-sail, serving to truss them up to the yards.

 

LEECH-ROPE

n.That part of the bolt-rope to which the skirt or border of a sail is sewed.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LEECH

LEECH Leech, n.

 

Defn: See 2d Leach.

 

LEECH

LEECH Leech, v. t.

 

Defn: See Leach, v. t.

 

LEECH

Leech, n. Etym: [Cf. LG. leik, Icel. lik, Sw. lik boltrope, stliken the leeches.] (Naut. )

 

Defn: The border or edge at the side of a sail. [Written also leach. ] Leech line, a line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by. Totten. -- Leech rope, that part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed.

 

LEECH

Leech, n. Etym: [OE. leche, læche, physician, AS. l; akin to Fries. l, OHG. lahhi, Icel. læknari, Sw. läkare, Dan. læge, Goth. l, AS. lacnian to heal, Sw. läka, Dan. læge, Icel. lækna, Goth. l.]

 

1. physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing. [Written also leach. ] [Archaic ] Spenser. Leech, heal thyself. Wyclif (Luke iv. 23 ).

 

2. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: 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.

 

Note: In the mouth of bloodsucking leeches are three convergent, serrated jaws, moved by strong muscles. By the motion of these jaws a stellate incision is made in the skin, through which the leech sucks blood till it is gorged, and then drops off. The stomach has large pouches on each side to hold the blood. The common large bloodsucking leech of America (Macrobdella decora ) is dark olive above, and red below, with black spots. Many kinds of leeches are parasitic on fishes; others feed upon worms and mollusks, and have no jaws for drawing blood. See Bdelloidea. Hirudinea, and Clepsine.

 

3. (Surg.)

 

Defn: A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum. Horse leech, a less powerful European leech (Hæmopis vorax ), commonly attacking the membrane that lines the inside of the mouth and nostrils of animals that drink at pools where it lives.

 

LEECH

Leech, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leeched; p. pr. & vb. n. Leeching.]

 

1. To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds. [Archaic ]

 

2. To bleed by the use of leeches.

 

LEECHCRAFT

LEECHCRAFT Leech "craft `, n.

 

Defn: The art of healing; skill of a physician. [Archaic ] Chaucer.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

leech

leech 1 |lēCH litʃ | ▶noun 1 an aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. Many species are bloodsucking parasites, esp. of vertebrates, and others are predators. [Class Hirudinea: many species. See also medicinal leech . ] 2 a person who extorts profit from or sponges on others: they are leeches feeding off the hardworking majority. ▶verb [ no obj. ] habitually exploit or rely on: he's leeching off the kindness of others. ORIGIN Old English lǣce, lȳce; related to Middle Dutch lake, lieke.

 

leech

leech 2 |litʃ lēCH | ▶noun archaic a doctor or healer. ORIGIN Old English lǣce, of Germanic origin.

 

leech

leech 3 |litʃ lēCH | ▶noun Sailing 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. ORIGIN late 15th cent.: probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish lik, Danish lig, denoting a rope sewn round the edge of a sail to stop the canvas from tearing.

 

leechcraft

leech craft |ˈlēCHˌkraft ˈlitʃˌkræft | ▶noun archaic the art of healing. ORIGIN Old English lǣcecræft (see leech 2, craft ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

leech

leech 1 |liːtʃ | ▶noun 1 an aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. Many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators. ●Class Hirudinea: many species. See also medicinal leech . 2 a person who extorts profit from or sponges on others: they are leeches feeding off the hard-working majority. ▶verb [ no obj. ] (leech on /off ) habitually exploit or rely on: he's leeching off the abilities of others. PHRASES like a leech very closely and persistently: you've been clinging to me like a leech all these months. ORIGIN Old English lǣce, lȳce; related to Middle Dutch lake, lieke.

 

leech

leech 2 |liːtʃ | ▶noun archaic a doctor or healer. ORIGIN Old English lǣce, of Germanic origin.

 

leech

leech 3 |liːtʃ | ▶noun Sailing 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. ORIGIN late 15th cent.: probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish lik, Danish lig, denoting a rope sewn round the edge of a sail to stop the canvas tearing.

 

leechcraft

leech |craft |ˈliːtʃkrɑːft | ▶noun [ mass noun ] archaic the art of healing. ORIGIN Old English lǣcecræft (see leech 2, craft ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

leech

leech noun the welfare system is supposed to help the needy, not feed the leeches: parasite, bloodsucker; informal scrounger, sponger, bottom feeder, freeloader.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

leech

leech noun the smug faces of leeches feeding off the hard-working majority: parasite, clinger, barnacle, bloodsucker, cadger, passenger, layabout; extortioner; sycophant, toady, hanger-on, fawner, yes man; informal scrounger, sponger, freeloader, ligger; N. Amer. informal mooch, moocher.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

leech

leech /liːtʃ /名詞 C 1 〘動 〙ヒル (!吸着して離れない物を比喩的にlike a ～ と表現する ) .2 ｟非難して ｠(他人を利用して )金もうけをする人 ; 甘い汁を吸う人 .3 ｟古 ｠医者 .動詞 他動詞 «…から » …を奪う «off » .