horseleech
Haemopsis latin

"He went to school with my nephew - the son of the horseleech brother.

The Daughter of the Horseleech.

"But there're just not enough of them, and anyone wounded in a squadron lacking them will just have to take his chances with a good horseleech.

Alukah is a Hebrew word that means "horseleech," a type of leech with many teeth that feeds on the throats of animals.

It wasn't easy - there aren't many - but last year we found the closest equivalent, a house just over the Truro border within walking distance of Horseleech.

"Loosely translated, it's a horseleech or a bloodsucking genie, but usually it's used to describe a female demon who lives in the cemetery and feasts on dead babies.

The Rev. John H. Smith, an Episcopal minister, performed the ceremony on the banks of Horseleech Pond in Wellfleet, Mass.

Not being hidden in the woods, Horseleech doesn't have quite the enchanted charm of Dyer, but being on a back road that branches off another back road, it never gets much traffic.

Prince d'Artois has withal the strangest horseleech: a moonstruck, much-enduring individual, of Neuchatel in Switzerland,--named Jean Paul Marat.

Arising, his sensitive face set in hard lines, the horseleech wiped foul-smelling greenish pus from his hands with a handful of leaves torn from the bush, then approached the komees who sat weeping unashamed tears onto the big, scarred head cradled in his lap.

O Marat, Renovator of Human Science, Lecturer on Optics; O thou remarkablest Horseleech, once in D'Artois' Stables,--as thy bleared soul looks forth, through thy bleared, dull-acrid, wo-stricken face, what sees it in all this?