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 Definitions for Deathwatch: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Deathwatch \Death"watch`\ (?; 224), n.
1. (Zool.)
(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.
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She is always seeing apparitions and hearing
deathwatches. --Addison.
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I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the
deathwatch beat. --Tennyson.
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2. The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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deathwatch
n 1: minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and
papers [syn: booklouse, book louse, {Liposcelis
divinatorius}]
2: bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought
to presage death [syn: deathwatch beetle, {Xestobium
rufovillosum}]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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31 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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