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A master of a puppet show.

Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation. Puppetry of the English laws of divorce. Chambers.

ch for a conceited and impertinent person. I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm. Addison.

The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.

Like a puppy.

Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence. A. Chalmers.

Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.

The old game of nineholes.

A stage intermediate between the larva and pupa of bees and certain other hymenopterous insects.

The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa.

A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe.

An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

Inequality of the pupils of the eye.

One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar. "An apt wit." Johnson. Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die. Shak. I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear. Shak.

alled also Argo Navis. In modern astronomy it is replaced by its three divisions, Carina, Puppis, and Vela.

and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.