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leach |
9 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Leach \Leach\, n. (Naut.) See 3d {Leech}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Leach \Leach\, n. [Written also {letch}.] [Cf. As le['a]h lye, G. lauge. See {Lye}.] 1. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. 2. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc {Leach tub}, a wooden tub in which ashes are leached. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Leach \Leach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leached}; p. pr & vb n. {Leaching}.] [Written also leech and letch.] 1. To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as to leach ashes or coffee. 2. To dissolve out -- often used with out as to leach out alkali from ashes. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Leach \Leach\, v. i. To part with soluble constituents by percolation. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Leach \Leach\, n. See {Leech}, a physician. [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Leech \Leech\, n. [Cf. LG leik, Icel. l[=i]k, Sw lik boltrope, st[*a]ende liken the leeches.] (Naut.) 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Leech \Leech\, n. [OE. leche, l[ae]che, physician, AS l[=ae]ce; akin to Fries. l[=e]tza, OHG. l[=a]hh[=i], Icel. l[ae]knari, Sw l["a]kare, Dan. l[ae]ge, Goth. l[=e]keis, AS l[=a]cnian to heal, Sw l["a]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. Leech, heal thyself. --Wyclif (Luke iv 23). 2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order {Hirudinea}, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: leach n : the process of leaching [syn: {leaching}] v 1: cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate 2: permeate; penetrate gradually; of liquids [syn: {percolate}] 3: remove substances form by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil" [syn: {strip}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Leach, OK Zip code(s): 74364
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