Word Meanings - HORSE-LEECH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.

• Bloodless
  Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.
• Bloodulf
  The European bullfinch.
• Horseshoe
  A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.
• Bloodlet
  bleed; to let blood.
• Blood vessel
  Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
• Horseshoer
  One who shoes horses.
• Northern
  Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.
• Suckled
  of Suckle
• Bloodletter
  One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
• Bloodwite
  Alt. of Bloodwit
• Horseshoeing
  The act or employment of shoeing horses.
• Northerner
  One born or living in the north.
• Suckling
  of Suckle
• Africander
  One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
• Bloodletting
  The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.
• Bloodwit
  A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.

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