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Bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
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deathwatch
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Deathwatch is a play written by Jean Genet in 1947, performed for the first time in Paris at the Théâtre des Mathurins in February 1949 under the direction of Jean Marchat .
WordNet
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n. minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers [syn: booklouse , book louse , Liposcelis divinatorius ] bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death [syn: deathwatch beetle , Xestobium rufovillosum ]
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n. 1 A vigil beside a dying person 2 One who guards a condemned person before execution. 3 A deathwatch beetle.
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Deathwatch \Death"watch`\ (?; 224), n. (Zo["o]l.) 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 ...
Usage examples of deathwatch.
Imperial servants are the Deathwatch Guards, the personal guard of the Imperial family.
The most elite section of the Deathwatch Guards is charged with the personal safety of the Empress and her immediate family.
Ogier make up a portion of the Deathwatch, although they are the only ones not property, and are considered incredibly fierce and more deadly than their human counterparts.
The Ogier of the Deathwatch are grim in demeanor and action compared to their brothers and sisters across the ocean.
Those not in attendance upon the grieving Royal Family were confined to their homes, ostensibly adding their prayers to those of their neighbors that the Deathwatch be swiftly ended.
Most of these babies were taken to the Font, where the Deathwatch was performed.
In the early stages of the Deathwatch, there was a definite high in watching the Congress reluctantly gearing up for a titanic battle with Richard Nixon and his private army of fixers who had taken over the whole executive branch of the government by the time he sailed triumphantly into his second term.
Richard Nixon has been broken, whipped and castrated all at once, but even for me there is no real crank or elation in having been a front-row spectator at the final scenes, the Deathwatch, the first time in American history that a president has been chased out of the White House and cast down in the ditch with all the other geeks and common criminals.
At that point, almost every journalist in Washington assigned to the Nixon Deathwatch had been averaging about two hours sleep a night since the beginning of summer.
Not much was happening, except for a few kinky interviews down by the White House gate with people who claimed to have been on the Deathwatch for three days and nights without sleeping.
The Deathwatch Guards tramped on, dedicated heart and soul to Empress and Empire, and Bethamin went in the opposite direction.
You must put every effort into finding her first, but if that fails, her Deathwatch Guards will be less protection than they seem.
He had been in the Deathwatch Guards even longer than Karede, though his hair was unbroken black, and he would suffer insults to the Empress, might she live forever, as gladly as insults to the Guards.
Ranks in the Deathwatch Guard stood half a step higher than those outside.
Tuon, eyed Karede and the other Deathwatch Guards, then spat through a gap in his teeth and leaned on the high pommel of his saddle.