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deathwatch

Length / number of characters: 10
Number of words: 1

  • minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
  • bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
  • 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
  • A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound
  • The guard set over a criminal before his execution

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