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Definition of Horseleech
1. Noun. Any of several large freshwater leeches.
Definition of Horseleech
1. n. A large blood-sucking leech (Hæmopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horseleech
Literary usage of Horseleech
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Universal Biography: Containing a Copious Account, Critical and Historical ...by John Lemprière by John Lemprière (1810)
"He wrote the Romish horseleech, or я discovery of the enormous exactions of the
court of Home, 8vo.—the History of Churches, and also made collections for ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Samuel Rolles Driver, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie (1900)
"It has been thought that they were acquainted with the use of leeches from the
words of Agur (Рг 3015) ; but if ' horseleech ' is the correct rendering (cf. ..."
3. Scripture Natural History by Henry Chichester Hart (1888)
"15 we find the only mention of the horseleech, ... In the passage quoted the
horseleech is adduced as a type of insatiable appetite. ..."
4. The Imperial Bible-dictionary by Patrick Fairbairn (1866)
"14 a generation is described who devour the poor and needy; then the horseleech
with her two daughters is introduced, and then three other things which are ..."
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