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The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.

Of or relating to beeches.

process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

f hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay.

Padded breeches. [Obs.] Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

Breeches. [Obs.] Shak.

Breeches. [Obs.] Shenstone.

Breeches made of buckskin. I have alluded to his buckskin. Thackeray.

was bunkum -- all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly.

y, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves. -- Breeches buoy. See under Breeches. -- Cable buoy, an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage. -- Can buoy, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped. -- Life buoy, a float inten…

zes; a whisperer; a talebearer. And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father's death. Shak.

An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by-speeches." Hooker.

Obs.] Without any of those dresses, or popular captations, which some men use in their speeches. Eikon Basilike.

ught by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. [Poetic] A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.

A clergyman who is officially atteched to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.

ubal struck the chorded shell. Dryden. Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp. Beecher.

Circular; illogical. [Obs. & .] "Cross and circulary speeches." Hooker.

A genus of freshwater leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.

The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.