Leech

lech, n. A physician. (Zo'61.) An aquatic suck- ing worm, used for the local abstraction of blood blood-sucker. — v. To treat with medicine; heal; to bleed by means of leeches. [AS. Isece, phvsician, also the worm AS. lacnian, to heal,"Ir. and Ga. leigh, physician, leighlas, a remedy.]