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A small beetle . 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. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,

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A small beetle . 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. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, 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.

Related words: (words related to DEATHWATCH)

• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• IMAGINARY
  Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• IMAGINARINESS
  The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• IMAGINE
  1. To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination. In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak. 2. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to
• BEETLE
  1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc. 2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.
• IMAGINATIONALISM
  Idealism. J. Grote.
• TICKLE
  to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG. chizzilon, chuzzilon, Icel. 1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. If you
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• IMAGINARILY
  In a imaginary manner; in imagination. B. Jonson.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . 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. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• POKING-STICK
  A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.
• BARK BEETLE
  A small beetle of many species , which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• CLICK BEETLE
  See ELATER
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• PIG-STICKING
  Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. Tackeray.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• STICKING
  a. & n. from Stick, v. Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. --