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Anobium tessellatum
Deathwatch Death"watch` (?; 224), n. 1. (Zo["o]l.) (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. She is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches. --Addison. I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat. --Tennyson. 2. The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
Tessellata
Tessellata Tes`sel*la"ta, n. pl. [NL. See Tessellate.] (Zo["o]l.) A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.
Tessellate
Tessellate Tes"sel*late, a. [L. tesselatus.] Tessellated.
Tessellate
Tessellate Tes"sel*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tessellated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tessellating.] [L. tessellatus tessellated. See Tessellar.] To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work. The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of France. --Macaulay.
Tessellated
Tessellated Tes"sel*la`ted, a. 1. Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement. 2. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf.
Tessellated
Tessellate Tes"sel*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tessellated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tessellating.] [L. tessellatus tessellated. See Tessellar.] To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work. The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of France. --Macaulay.
Tessellating
Tessellate Tes"sel*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tessellated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tessellating.] [L. tessellatus tessellated. See Tessellar.] To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work. The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of France. --Macaulay.
Tessellation
Tessellation Tes`sel*la"tion, n. The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed. --J. Forsyth.

Meaning of Tessella from wikipedia

- Engineering. Tessella was founded in 1980 by Kevin Gell. Tessella moved to its first permanent office in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1987. Tessella established...
- A tessera (plural: tesserae, diminutive tessella) is an individual tile, usually formed in the shape of a square, used in creating a mosaic. It is also...
- Tessella klagesi is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1909. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana and Ecuador. Savela...
- jorgenseni Schaus, 1921 Tessella klagesi (Rothschild, 1909) Tessella leucomelas Toulgoët, 2000 Tessella sertata Berg, 1882 Tessella apostata Schaus, 1905...
- Tessella leucomelas is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Hervé de Toulgoët in 2000. It is found in French Guiana. Savela, Markku. "Tessella...
- Trigonostoma tessella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails. Trigonostoma tessella Garrard...
- Tessella grandis is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Hervé de Toulgoët in 2002. It is found in French Guiana and Peru. Tessella grandis...
- Tessella jorgenseni is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1921. It is found in Paraguay. Savela, Markku. "Tessella jorgenseni...
-  apostata Binomial name Castronia apostata (Schaus, 1905) Synonyms Tessellota apostata Schaus, 1905 Tessella apostata Castronia collaris E. D. Jones, 1912...
- Tessella sertata is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Carlos Berg in 1882. It is found in Uruguay, Argentina and the Brazilian states...