Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Leach"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Leach \Leach\, n. (Naut.)
See 3d {Leech}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Leach \Leach\, n. [Written also {letch}.] [Cf. As. le['a]h lye,
G. lauge. See {Lye}.]
1. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and
thus imbibes the alkali.
2. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
{Leach tub}, a wooden tub in which ashes are leached.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Leach \Leach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Leached}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Leaching}.] [Written also leech and letch.]
1. To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to
the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to
leach ashes or coffee.
2. To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out
alkali from ashes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Leach \Leach\, v. i.
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Leach \Leach\, n.
See {Leech}, a physician. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Leech \Leech\, n. [Cf. LG. leik, Icel. l[=i]k, Sw. lik boltrope,
st[*a]ende liken the leeches.] (Naut.)
The border or edge at the side of a sail. [Written also
{leach}.]
{Leech line}, a line attached to the leech ropes of sails,
passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the
leeches by. --Totten.
{Leech rope}, that part of the boltrope to which the side of
a sail is sewed.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Leech \Leech\, n. [OE. leche, l[ae]che, physician, AS. l[=ae]ce;
akin to Fries. l[=e]tza, OHG. l[=a]hh[=i], Icel. l[ae]knari,
Sw. l["a]kare, Dan. l[ae]ge, Goth. l[=e]keis, AS. l[=a]cnian
to heal, Sw. l["a]ka, Dan. l[ae]ge, Icel. l[ae]kna, Goth.
l[=e]kin[=o]n.]
1. A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
[Written also {leach}.] [Archaic] --Spenser.
Leech, heal thyself. --Wyclif (Luke
iv. 23).
2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous genera and species of
annulose worms, belonging to the order {Hirudinea}, or
Bdelloidea, esp. those species
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
leach
n : the process of leaching [syn: {leaching}]
v 1: cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate
2: permeate; penetrate gradually; of liquids [syn: {percolate}]
3: remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the
soil" [syn: {strip}]
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