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One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an exxamination, or a pupil who is thus prepared. Dickens.

To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle. Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggled through the town. Pope.

A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.

Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.

A puppet show; also, a puppet. [Obs.] Shak.

sia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.

r layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.

A pupil; a student.

. The Enneads, the title given to the works of the philosopher Plotinus, published by his pupil Porphyry; -- so called because each of the six books into which it is divided contains nine chapters.

enosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil.

A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.

Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.

; prematureness; precocity; as, the forwardnessof spring or of corn; the forwardness of a pupil. He had such a dexterous proclivity, as his teachers were fain to restrain his forwardness. Sir H. Wotton.

s own beer or purchase where he chooses. Simmonds. -- Free school. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. -- Free services (O.Eng. Law), such feuda…

are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in Europe and the United States. See Wal…

A species of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis. Youatt.

posterior part of the body, all giving rise to long yellow and black hairs. They usually pupate in July and the moth appears in August. The eggs are laid on tree trunks, rocks, etc., and hatch in the spring.

A European bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

rson whose favor is sought. Lysimachus . . . ingratiated himself both with Philip and his pupil. Budgell.

e of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry. Dr. H. More. To initiate his pupil into any part of learning, an ordinary skill in the governor is enough. Locke.