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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
leech
n 1: carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms
typically having a sucker at each end [syn: leech,
bloodsucker, hirudinean]
2: a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the
host) in hope of gain or advantage [syn: leech, parasite,
sponge, sponger]
v 1: draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled
patients as part of the treatment" [syn: bleed, leech,
phlebotomize, phlebotomise]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Leech \Leech\ (l[=e]ch), n.
See 2d Leach.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Leech \Leech\, v. t.
See Leach, v. t.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Leech \Leech\, n. [Cf. LG. leik, Icel. l[imac]k, Sw. lik
boltrope, st[*a]ende liken the leeches.] (Naut.)
The border or edge at the side of a sail. [Written also
leach.]
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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.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Leech \Leech\, n. [OE. leche, l[ae]che, physician, AS. l[=ae]ce;
akin to Fries. l[=e]tza, OHG. l[=a]hh[imac], Icel.
l[ae]knari, Sw. l[aum]kare, Dan. l[ae]ge, Goth. l[=e]keis,
AS. l[=a]cnian to heal, Sw. l[aum]ka, Dan. l[ae]ge, Icel.
l[ae]kna, Goth. l[=e]kin[=o]n.]
1. A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
[Written also leach.] [Archaic] --Spenser.
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Leech, heal thyself. --Wyclif (Luke
iv. 23).
2. (Zool.) 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.
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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.
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3. (Surg.) A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for
drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.
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Horse leech, a less powerful European leech (H[ae]mopis
vorax), commonly attacking the membrane that lines the
inside of the mouth and nostrils of animals that drink at
pools where it lives.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Leech \Leech\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leeched (l[=e]cht); p. pr.
& vb. n. Leeching.]
1. To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
[Archaic]
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2. To bleed by the use of leeches.
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7. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
leech
1. n. (Also leecher.) Among BBS types, crackers and warez d00dz, one who
consumes knowledge without generating new software, cracks, or techniques.
BBS culture specifically defines a leech as someone who downloads files
with few or no uploads in return, and who does not contribute to the
message section. Cracker culture extends this definition to someone (a
lamer, usually) who constantly presses informed sources for information
and/or assistance, but has nothing to contribute. See troughie.
2. v. [common, Toronto area] v. To download a file across any kind of
internet link. ?Hop on IRC later so I can leech some MP3s from you.? Used
to describe activities ranging from FTP, to IRC DCC-send, to ICQ file
requests, to Napster searches (but never to downloading email with file
attachments; the implication is that the download is the result of a browse
or search of some sort of file server). Seems to be a holdover from the
early 1990s when Toronto had a very active BBS and warez scene. Synonymous
with snarf (sense 2), and contrast snarf (sense 4).
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8. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
leech
Someone who downloads files but provides
nothing for others to download. The term is common on
BitTorrent, which relies on having multiple sources for
files to improve download speed.
(2007-03-27)
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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