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horseleech

[ hawrs-leech ]

noun

  1. a large leech, as Haemopis marmoratis, that infests the mouth and nasal passages of horses.


horseleech

/ 藞丑蓴藧蝉藢濒颈藧迟蕛 /

noun

  1. any of several large carnivorous freshwater leeches of the genus Haemopis, esp H. sanguisuga
  2. an archaic name for a veterinary surgeon
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of horseleech1

First recorded in 1400鈥50, horseleech is from the late Middle English word horsleych. See horse, leech 1
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To the Church they were stanch; they held on with a kind Of a power like horseleeches' of suction, Intolerant, bigoted, narrow, and blind, They but lived to persist in obstruction.

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Morales had, however, made his horseleech nature tolerably plain already, and Appleby decided to stand firm.

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The people, like Oliver, "asked for more;" ungrateful people! not content with Father Glynn at the viceroy's table, and the Bishop of "Mesopotamia" in the council, they cried, like the horseleech's daughters, "Give! give!"

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This faith thou not only keepest silent with this uproar of thine, but even oppressest, only so thy insatiable horseleech have those to whom it may say, "Bring, bring!"

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They are always hanging upon us like an incubus; and yet like Solomon's daughters of the horseleech, are never satisfied.

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