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Date "LEECHES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | 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 tn your family (if you escape yourself). To see them applied to others, denotes sickness or trouble to friends. If they should bite you, there is danger for you in unexpected places, and you should heed well this warning. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis medicatrix, vis medicatrix naturae; medecine expectante; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection, phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisae, leeches; operation, surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter, feeding tube; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LEECHES |
| English words defined with "LEECHES": Annelida, Annulata ♦ Bdelloidea, Branchiobdellidae ♦ Clepsine ♦ family Branchiobdellidae ♦ genus Haemopis ♦ Haemopis, Hirudine, horseleech ♦ Land leech, Leech line ♦ phylum Annelida ♦ Rhynchobdellea. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LEECHES": bottom feeder ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ Helminths, Hirudin ♦ trial. (references) |
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Screenplays | Three hours of crawling in the sewers for electric leeches and what do we get? (Extreme Ghostbusters; writing credit: Brooks Wachtel) I can take giant turtles and dinosaurs, but leeches yuck! (The Last Dinosaur; writing credit: William Overgard) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) Leeches! (2003) The Brain Leeches (1977) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Use of leeches to reduce weight]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth. In our day the accused is usually a human being, or a socialist, but in mediaeval times, animals, fishes, reptiles and insects were brought to trial. A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner. Insects ravaging grain fields, orchards or vineyards were cited to appeal by counsel before a civil tribunal, and after testimony, argument and condemnation, if they continued in contumaciam the matter was taken to a high ecclesiastical court, where they were solemnly excommunicated and anathematized. In a street of Toledo, some pigs that had wickedly run between the viceroy's legs, upsetting him, were arrested on a warrant, tried and punished. In Naples and ass was condemned to be burned at the stake, but the sentence appears not to have been executed. D'Addosio relates from the court records many trials of pigs, bulls, horses, cocks, dogs, goats, etc., greatly, it is believed, to the betterment of their conduct and morals. In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of "the aquatic worms" be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring "the malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this cause celebre nothing is found to show whether the offenders braved the punishment, or departed forthwith out of that inhospitable jurisdiction. |
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| "LEECHES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 91.53% of the time. "LEECHES" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 91.53% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.78% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "LEECHES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | piócát rak vkire (to apply leeches to sy). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eecheslay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "LEECHES": fleeches. (additional references) | |
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"LEECHES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alejchem, Elekes, elenches, fleeches, Leccese, lechee, leches, Lechesa, Lechet, Lechte, lechuck, lechuza, lechwe, leeche, Leehey, Leeke, leices, lenches, lesche, Lewchuk, Liuchow, Llechwen, Luehea, lychees. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LEECHES" (pronounced lē"khuz) |
| 5 | l ē" kh u z | leaches. |
| 4 | -ē" kh u z | beaches, breaches, impeaches, peaches, preaches, reaches, screeches, speeches, teaches. |
| 3 | -kh u z | approaches, arches, attaches, avalanches, batches, benches, bitches, boches, branches, britches, broaches, brunches, bunches, catches, churches, clenches, clinches, clutches, coaches, cockroaches, couches, crunches, crutches, detaches, dispatches, ditches, encroaches, enriches, entrenches, etches, fetches, finches, glitches, goldfinches, hatches, hitches, hunches, inches, itches, latches, launches, lunches, lurches, marches, matches, mismatches, mulches, niches, notches, ostriches, overreaches, patches, perches, pitches, pooches, porches, pouches, punches, ranches, researches, riches, roaches, sandwiches, scotches, scratches, searches, sketches, slouches, snatches, starches, stitches, stopwatches, stretches, swatches, switches, thatches, torches, touches, trenches, twitches, watches, wenches, witches, wrenches, wristwatches. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-h-l-s" | |
-1 letter: cheese, leches. | |
-2 letters: eches, heels, leech. | |
-3 letters: cees, cels, eche, eels, else, heel, lech, lees, seel. | |
-4 letters: cee, cel, eel, els, hes, lee, sec, see, sel, she. | |
-5 letters: eh, el, es, he, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-h-l-s" | |
+1 letter: echelles, fleeches. | |
+2 letters: cheerless, lecheries, scheelite. | |
+3 letters: cheerleads, chevelures, flechettes, heelpieces, herculeses, reschedule, scheelites, speechless. | |
+4 letters: cheerlessly, cheesecloth, decathletes, entelechies, escheatable, preschedule, rescheduled, reschedules, sepulchered. | |
+5 letters: beseechingly, bleacherites, cartwheelers, chanterelles, cheerfullest, cheerfulness, cheerleaders, cheesecloths, chesterfield, heteroclites, heterocycles, housecleaned, leathernecks, mesencephala, overbleaches, prescheduled, preschedules, rechallenges, researchable, speechlessly, steeplechase, superhelices. | |
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