Pupil

Definition of Pupil

Pu´pil
n.1.(Anat.) The aperture in the 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.
1.A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
Too far in years to be a pupil now.
- Shak.
Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.
- L'Estrange.
2.A person under a guardian; a ward.
3.(Civil Law) A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.

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