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A young dog; a puppy.

us 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.

e 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.

A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.

Bearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured larvæ, or larval skins, of certain Diptera.

roup of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvæ and pupæ of insects.

Feeding on the pupæ of insects.

Publican. [Obs.]

marionette; a wooden actor in a play. At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance. Pope.

Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the nature of a puppet.