Crossword clues for deathwatch
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deathwatch \Death"watch`\ (?; 224), n.
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(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 by superstitious people to presage death.
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A small wingless insect, of the family Psocid[ae], 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.
The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A vigil beside a dying person 2 One who guards a condemned person before execution. 3 A deathwatch beetle.
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
Deathwatch is a 2002 British-German horror film written and directed by Michael J. Bassett and starring Jamie Bell, Laurence Fox, Kris Marshall and Andy Serkis.
Deathwatch, Death Watch, or Death-Watch may refer to:
- Death-Watch, a 1935 novel by John Dickson Carr
- Deathwatch (play), French playwright Jean Genet's earliest play (Haute Surveillance), written in 1947
- Deathwatch (1966 film), English language film version of Jean Genet's play, produced by Vic Morrow and Leonard Nimoy
- Deathwatch (2002 film), a 2002 war/horror film set during World War I
- Death Watch (La Mort en direct), a 1980 Franco-German-British science fiction film shot in Glasgow
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Deathwatch (Warhammer 40,000), an elite organisation of Space Marines from the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe
- Deathwatch (role-playing game), the third game in the Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay sub-franchise
- Death watch beetle, an insect famed for making a distinctive ticking sound
- Deathwatch (novel), a 1972 novel by Robb White
- Deathwatch (comics), a supervillain from the Ghost Rider series of comics
- Ancients 1: Deathwatch, a MS-DOS computer game
Deathwatch is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as a demonic supervillain, most notably as an enemy of the third Ghost Rider, Danny Ketch.
Deathwatch is an American 1972 novel written by Robb White. The book was awarded the 1973 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America.
Its plot features a skilled and successful hunter and lawyer, Madec, who receives a rare permit to shoot bighorn sheep in California's Mojave Desert for seven days. He hires a timid college student named Ben as a guide. After Madec shoots an old prospector, he realizes that Ben will not help cover up the shooting, and he attempts to silence Ben forever.
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.
Deathwatch is a role-playing game published in 2010 that uses the Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay system.
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.