"Horse-Leech" is a word in ENGLISH
A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of
Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
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Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.
Read the complete definitionTo practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.
Read the complete definitionA shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon.
Read the complete definitionThe business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
Read the complete definitionlansétas - (Sp. lanceta) Lancet, fleam, a farrier’s sharp knife used in phlebotomy; a pocket-knife.
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