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Deathwatch
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What's The Definition Of Deathwatch?
[n] minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
[n] bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death Synonyms | Synonyms for Deathwatch: book louse | booklouse | deathwatch beetle | Liposcelis divinatorius | Xestobium rufovillosum Related Terms | Find terms related to Deathwatch: agony | burial service | death agonies | death groan | death rattle | death struggle | death throes | deathbed | dirge | dying breath | eulogy | exequies | extreme unction | extremity | final extremity | funeral oration | funeral rites | last agony | last breath | last duty | last gasp | last honors | last offices | last rites | moribundity | obsequies | requiem | requiem mass | throes of death | viaticum | wake See Also | Anobiidae | beetle | common booklouse | family Anobiidae | genus Liposcelis | Liposcelis | psocopterous insect | Trogium pulsatorium Deathwatch In Webster's Dictionary \Death"watch`\ (?; 224), n.
1. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A small beetle ({Anobium tessellatum} and other allied
species). By forcibly striking its head against
woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of
the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by
superstitious people to presage death.
(b) A small wingless insect, of the family {Psocid[ae]},
which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called
also {deathtick}.
She is always seeing apparitions and hearing
deathwatches. --Addison.
I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the
deathwatch beat. --Tennyson.
2. The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
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