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ence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil. The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way. Ex. xiii. 21. He leadeth me beside the still waters. Ps. xxiii. 2. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask. Content, though bli…

Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.

Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.

A long-continued or excessive dilatation of the pupil of the eye.

Causing dilatation of the pupil. -- n.

Long-continued contraction of the pupil of the eye.

Producing myosis, or contraction of the pupil of the eye, as opium, calabar bean, etc. -- n.

the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.

A seminary which prepares pupils for a higher institution. T. Warton.

ct and usually expensive endowed schools which give a liberal modern education or prepare pupils for the universities. Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Winchester are of this class.

The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.

ho attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student. I am no breeching scholar in the schools. Shak.

emblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences Buckminster.

Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.

A pupil who attends the same school as another.

A room in which pupils are taught.

Its purpose is not only to afford practical skill in some trade, but also to develop the pupils mentally and physically.

Any young male person spoken of as a child; an adopted male child; a pupil, ward, or any other male dependent. The child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. Ex. ii. 10. Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. Shak.

cially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them. More.

Pupil of the eye. [Prov. Eng.]