PUPIL

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. Pin-hole pupil (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Dunglison.

2.
n.

A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor. Too far in years to be a pupil now. Shak. Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. L'Estrange.

3.
n.

A person under a guardian; a ward. Dryden.

4.
n.

A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.


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