Chapter Puncturation to Puppy of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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.

Pupal
(Pu"pal) a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.

Pupate
(Pu"pate) v. i. (Zoöl.) To become a pupa.

Pupation
(Pu*pa"tion) n. (Zoöl.) the act of becoming a pupa.

Pupe
(Pupe) n. [F.] (Zoöl.) A pupa.

Pupelo
(Pu*pe"lo) n. Cider brandy. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

Pupigerous
(Pu*pig"er*ous), a. [Pupa + - gerous.] (Zoöl.) Bearing or containing a pupa; — said of dipterous larvæ which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.

Pupil
(Pu"pil) n. [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.) 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.

Pupil
(Pu"pil), n. [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) 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.

Pupilage
(Pu"pil*age) n. The state of being a pupil.

As sons of kings, loving in pupilage,
Have turned to tyrants when they came to power.

Tennyson.

Pupillarity
(Pu`pil*lar"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. pupillarité. See Pupillary.] (Scots Law) The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females.

Pupillary
(Pu"pil*la*ry) a. [L. pupillaris: cf. F. pupillaire. See Pupil.]

1. Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward. Johnson.

2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye.

Pupillometer
(Pu`pil*lom"e*ter) n. [L. pupilla pupil of the eye + -meter.] (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of the pupil of the eye.