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Having some resemblance to a mummy; -- in zoölogy, said of the pupæ of certain insects.

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.

A puppet. [R.] Dr. H. More.

The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.

Producing pupas or nymphs.

Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain files.

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

A word variously explained as "a little puppet," "a little doll," or "a young butterfly." Cf. Popet. [Obs.] So gay a popelote, so sweet a wench. Chaucer.

A puppet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Puppet.

A puppet, or little baby. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

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

circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.

division of insects (Zoöl.) reticulated wings, as in the Neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc. By some zoölogists they are classed with the Orthoptera; by others, with the Neuroptera.

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 buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show. Punch and Judy, a puppet show in which a comical little hunchbacked Punch, with a large nose, engages in altercation with his wife Judy.

A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator.