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Horse-leech   Listen
noun
Horse-leech  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
2.
A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.





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"Horse-leech" Quotes from Famous Books



... proportion to their hostility. Corrupted public men who are not bribed often become sternly virtuous and denunciatory with a similar hope. Those who have received the wages of shame, on the other hand, become more insistent in their demands, crying, "Give! Give!" like the daughter of the horse-leech. ...
— Face to Face with Kaiserism • James W. Gerard
... the horse-leech shall cease to be the painful language of the heart, it will be when, the longings of the heart no longer baffled by the vacancies or the irritating rivalries of a vapid and jealous society, all human beings developed enough to need, and noble enough to deserve, shall also be fortunate enough to ...
— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger
... with rotting weeds, Close by the pines there at the highway side; No ripple on its green and stagnant tide, Where only cold and still the horse-leech breeds— Ugh! might not here some bloody ...
— Poems • Walter R. Cassels


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