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† dog-leech Obs.
1. A veterinary surgeon who treats dogs.
1638Ford Fancies iv. i, I will once turn dog-leech. 1640Nabbes Bride v. i, He cured my little Shock of the mange..an excellent Dog-leech. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. v, Suspicion of ‘Servility’..the very dogleech is anxious to disavow.
2. An ignorant medical practitioner; a quack.
1529More Dyaloge ii. 57 b/1 Ye myght happen vppon a dogge leche, for lacke of knowledge of the conning. 1628Ford Lover's Mel. iv. ii, O these lousy close-stool empirics, that will undertake all cures, yet know not the causes of any disease! Dog-leeches! a1652Brome Queene's Exch. iv. Wks. 1873 III. 525 Thy Liege, Dog-leech? are you at that garb too? |