Pupil /(?)/
Pu·pil
Pupil
n.
- The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. (Anat.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Pin-hole pupil
- the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole.
Pupil
n.
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A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
Too far in years to be a pupil now.
Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.
- A person under a guardian; a ward.
- A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female. (Civil Law)