PUPILS

Noun

pupils

plural of pupil

Anagrams

• pi plus, pi-plus, pipuls, slip up, slip-up, slipup, suppli, supplì

Source: Wiktionary

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PUPIL

Pu"pil, n. Etym: [F. pupille, n. fem., L. pupilla the pupil of the eye, originally dim. of pupa a girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil a scholar.] (Anat.)

Definition: 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.

Pu"pil, n. Etym: [F. pupille, n. masc. & fem., L. pupillus, pupilla, dim. of pupus boy, pupa girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil of the eye.]

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. Dryden.

3. (Civil Law)

Definition: A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.

Syn.

– Learner; disciple; tyro.

– See Scholar.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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