| athwart | (adverb) at an oblique angle | Synonyms: aslant, obliquely |
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| (adverb) at right angles to the center line of a ship | - |
| deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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| (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
| pathway | (noun) a trodden path | Synonyms: footpath |
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| (noun) a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain | Synonyms: nerve pathway, nerve tract, tract |