Deathwatch Definition
dĕthwŏch
noun
A vigil kept beside a dead or dying person.
Webster's New World
A guard set over a person soon to be executed.
Webster's New World
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
A deathwatch beetle.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- booklouse
- Liposcelis divinatorius
- book louse
- Xestobium rufovillosum
- deathwatch-beetle
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Noun
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deathwatch
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