1. Minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
   - booklouse, book louse, Liposcelis divinatorius 
2. Bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
   - deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum

Derived forms: deathwatches

Type of: beetle, psocopterous insect

Part of: Anobiidae, family Anobiidae, genus Liposcelis, Liposcelis

Encyclopedia: Deathwatch

• Liverpool
• Liverpudlian
• liverwort
• liverwurst
• livery
• livery company
• livery driver
• livery stable
• liveryman
• livestock
• livid
• lividity
• lividly
• lividness
• living
• living accommodations
• living arrangement
• living dead
• living death
• living fossil
• living granite
• living quarters
• living rock
• living space
• living standard