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deathwatch    音標拼音: [d'ɛθw,ɑtʃ]
n. 臨終的看護,死囚的監守人

臨終的看護,死囚的監守人

deathwatch
n 1: minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and
papers [synonym: {booklouse}, {book louse}, {deathwatch},
{Liposcelis divinatorius}]
2: bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought
to presage death [synonym: {deathwatch beetle}, {deathwatch},
{Xestobium rufovillosum}]

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}.
[1913 Webster]

She is always seeing apparitions and hearing
deathwatches. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]

I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the
deathwatch beat. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]

2. The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
[1913 Webster]

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