Deathwatch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A vigil kept beside a dying or dead person.
  • n. One who guards a condemned person before execution.
  • n. A deathwatch beetle.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A vigil beside a dying person
  • n. One who guards a condemned person before execution.
  • n. A deathwatch beetle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.
  • n. The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A vigil beside a dying person.
  • n. A guard set over a condemned criminal for some time prior to his execution.
  • n. The popular name of several small beetles which make a ticking or clicking sound, supposed by superstitious persons to be ominous of death
  • n. A minute, wingless, pseudoneuropterous insect, Atropos pulsatorius, of the family Psocidæ, a great pest in botanical and entomological collections. It also makes a ticking sound.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
  • n. minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    beetle   
    Variant
    deathtick   
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