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physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing. [Written also leach.] [Archaic] Spenser. Leech, heal thyself. Wyclif (Luke iv. 23).

Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy. "The lickerish palate of the glutton." Bp. Hall.

e of operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from Joseph Lister, an English surgeon.

To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill. [U.S.]

in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree (Laplacea hæmatoxylon). -- Loblolly boy, a surgeon's attendant on shipboard. Smollett. -- Loblolly pine (Bot.), a kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along the coast; old field pine (Pinus Tæda). Also, P. Bahamensis, of the West Indies. -- Loblolly tree (Bot.…

A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.

Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort. [Colloq.]

To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify. We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole city. Hammond.

duct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results. [Written also malepractice.]

te, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.

A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.

r recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.

name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.

The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want. Urge the necessity and state of times. Shak. The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was in. Clarendon.

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want. And the city had no need of the sun. Rev. xxi. 23. I have no need to beg. Shak. Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy. Jer. Taylor.

To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge unduly or against the will. Milton.

business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics. "In the off season." Thackeray. Off side. (a) The right hand side in driving; the farther side. See Gee. (b) (Cricket) See Off, n.

Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery.

Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.

of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.