LEACHES

A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.

A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.

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To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.

"Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil."

To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.

A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.

A physician.

(Heathenry) A healer.

The vertical edge of a square sail.

The aft edge of a triangular sail.