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Deathwatch

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Noun

1. book louse, booklouse, deathwatch, liposcelis divinatorius

minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers

2. deathwatch, deathwatch beetle, xestobium rufovillosum

bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Deathwatch

see synonyms of deathwatch
noun
1. 
a vigil held beside a dying or dead person
2.  deathwatch beetle

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Deathwatch

see synonyms of deathwatch
noun
1. 
a vigil kept beside a dead or dying person
2. 
a guard set over a person soon to be executed
3. 
any of various insects, esp. any of a family (Anobiidae) of wood-burrowing beetles whose heads make a tapping sound superstitiously regarded as an omen of death

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Deathwatch

see synonyms of deathwatch
n.
1. A vigil kept beside a dying or dead person.
2. One who guards a condemned person before execution.
3. A deathwatch beetle.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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