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Presupposition. [R.] "Presupposal of knowledge." Hooker.

To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator. Each [kind of knowledge] presupposes many necessary things learned in other sciences, and known beforehand. Hooker.

The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.

Old name of the tense also called pluperfect.

The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat. Brande & C.

The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

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

A young dog; a puppy.

s of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell. Coarctate, or Obtected, pupa, a pupa which is incased in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera. -- Masked pupa, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.

Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.

To become a pupa.

the act of becoming a pupa.

A pupa.

Cider brandy. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvæ which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.

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.

The state of being a pupil. As sons of kings, loving in pupilage, Have turned to tyrants when they came to power. Tennyson.

The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females.

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward. Johnson.

An instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of the pupil of the eye.