leech

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for leech

leech 🔊 /liˈʧ/

leech : පූඩැල්ලා

leech : පුහුඩාවා

leech : පූඩාව

leech : පූඩාවා

leech : අනුකම්පා නැත්තා

leech : කූඩැල්ලා

leech definition

Noun.

  1. See 2d Leach.
  2. The border or edge at the side of a sail.
  3. A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
  4. Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, Especially. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.
  5. A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.

Transitive verb.

  1. See Leach, Transitive verb.
  2. To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.
  3. To bleed by the use of leeches.