pupil

noun

A youth or any person of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor; in general, a scholar; a disciple.

noun

A ward; a youth or person under the care of a guardian.

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In civil law, a person under puberty (fourteen for males, twelve for females), over whom a guardian has been appointed.

Under age; in a state of pupilage or nonage; minor.

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The orifice of the iris; the hole or opening in the iris through which light passes.

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In zoology: The central dark part of an ocellated spot. See ocellus, 4.

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A dark, apparently interior, spot seen in the compound eyes of certain insects, and changing in position as it is viewed from different sides.

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The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under eye, and iris.

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the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole.

noun

A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.