leech
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Substantiivi
leech englanniksi
(senseid)An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class (taxfmt), especially (taxlink).
{{quote-text|en|year=2003|author=William W. Johnstone|title=The Last Of The Dog Team|page=195
A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
{{quote-text|en|year=2000|author=Ray Garmon|title=The Man Who Just Didn't Care|page=20
{{quote-text|en|year=2006|author=D. L. Harman|title=A State of Nine One One|page=106
A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
{{quote-text|en|year=2003|author=George R.R. Martin|title=A Storm of Swords
To drain (resources) without giving back.
(nearsyn)
(ux)
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(senseid) A physician.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
{{quote-text|en|year=1610|location=Bolton|url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=2345017|title=Armoriesː
1610, Bolton, Armoriesː
- As if an expert leech must needs be expert in the physicks (that is, in those speculations which concerne the workes of nature) the nearest word to fall with our tongue, yet not farre from the thing, was physitian.
(RQ:Butler Hudibras)
{{quote-text|en|year=1807|author=George Crabbeː
(RQ:Hawthorne Scarlet Letter)
{{quote-book|en|year=1992|author=Hilary Mantel|title=A Place of Greater Safety|publisher=Harper Perennial|year_published=2007|page=11
A healer.
{{quote-text|en|year=1900|author=Augustus Henry Keane|title=Man, Past and Present|publisher=The University Press|location=Cambridge
1996, Swain Wodening, “Scandinavian Craft Lesson 6: Runic Divination”, ''Theod Magazine'' 3 (4)
- In ancient times runesters were a specialized class separate from that of the witch or ordinary spell caster (much as the other specialists such as the leech or healer and the seithkona were different from a witch), and even today many believe it takes years of training to become adept at using the runes in spell work.
{{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=Brian Froud; Ari Berk|title=The Runes of Elfland|publisher=Pavillion Books|isbn=1862056471|page=22
{{quote-book|en|year=2004|author=Runic John|title=The Book of Seidr|publisher=Capall Bann Publishing|isbn=1861632290|page=282
1564, Accounts of Louth Corporalː
- Paid for leeching.. my horses very sick.
1566–74, Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotlandː
- To one man (that) broke his leg in Strivelin … Item to the man that leecheth him.
(RQ:Mortimer Husbandry)
1850, Blackieː
- A disease that none may leech.
{{quote-text|en|year=1984|author=Sven Donaldson|title=A Sailor's Guide to Sails|page=130
The aft edge of a triangular sail.
{{quote-text|en|year=2004|author=Gary Jobson|title=Gary Jobson's Championship Sailing|page=176
light, not heavy
easy, not difficult
(usex)