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leeches, plural;
  1. Habitually exploit or rely on
    • - he's leeching off the kindness of others
Noun
  1. The after or leeward edge of a fore-and-aft sail, the leeward edge of a spinnaker, or a vertical edge of a square sail

  1. bleed: draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"
  2. carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
  3. a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
  4. Leeches are annelids comprising the subclass Hirudinea. There are freshwater, terrestrial, and marine leeches. Like the Oligochaeta, they share the presence of a clitellum. Like earthworms, leeches are hermaphrodites. Some, but not all, leeches are hematophagous.
  5. Leech is a character in the Marvel Comics Universe.
  6. In computing and specifically on the Internet, a leech or leecher is one who benefits, usually deliberately, from others' information or effort but does not offer anything in return, or makes only token offerings in an attempt to avoid being called a leech. ...
  7. In sailing the parts of a sail have common terminology for each corner and edge of the sail.
  8. Season one of Smallville, an American television series developed by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, began airing on October 16, 2001, on The WB television network. ...
  9. "LEECH" is a maxi-single by The Gazette. It was released as two different types: the Optical Impression and Auditory Impression, the first coming with a DVD with the music video for the song "LEECH", and the second with a bonus track.
  10. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis; A person who derives profit from others, in a parasitic fashion; To apply a leech medicinally; To drain (resources) without giving back
  11. (Leeches) To dream of leeches, foretells that enemies will run over your interests. If they are applied to you for medicinal purposes, you will have a serious illness to your family (if you escape yourself). To see them applied to others, denotes sickness or trouble to friends. ...
  12. (Leeches) A commercially sold live bait known as ribbon leech not the blood sucking variety. Used for most game fish when available during the fishing season.
  13. (Leeches) A leach is a person that is downloading a file or files from other computers, but is not sharing any files of his or her own. Leeching is considered bad etiquette on P2P clients.
  14. (Leeches) Those who take blood samples, e.g. lab techs.
  15. (Leeching) Official term for the act of a disguised Spy gaining health from an enemy Medic, Dispenser or Payload.
  16. (Leeching) Unwelcome help on killing an enemy.
  17. The edge of a sail that lies opposite to its yard, and is used (in place of “at the peak” on gaff-rigged vessels) to indicate the position of an ensign when flown from a halyard running from the outer end of the mainsail boom to the mast of a Bermuda rigged sailing yacht - instead of from an ...
  18. A visitor who uses another person’s password to access a restricted area of a website. cPanel allows you to prevent leeching by redirecting likely offenders or disabling accounts whose passwords have been compromised.
  19. The after or trailing edge of a sail; the after edge of a fore-and-aft sail and the outer edges of a square sail
  20. 1. An aquatic parasite that sucks blood from animals. Leeches play a role in medicine today. See: Leech therapy. 2. (Archaic) A physician or surgeon (because they did so much leeching). 3. A person who behaves as a parasite.
  21. The trailing edge of a sail. In the case of a symmetric spinnaker, the side opposite the spinnaker pole. [see mainsail drawing][see jib drawing]
  22. Quite same as peer except that they don’t share the files once they have completed the downloads.
  23. Formerly: an in-law or friend who only shows up at inopportune times, often for the purpose of "borrowing" money. Current: an inferior flyfishing method involving an indicator; regarded by purists as the lowest of the angling in the flyfishing world, also see "heretic"
  24. Leech: an egoistic person who downloads a file using P2P technology, and who does NOT share (enough) with others when in possession of the complete file, reducing it's Availability. ...