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n. [ Origin unknown; cf. Bumble, n. ] 1. The old game of nineholes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Card Playing) Whist played in an unscientific way. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. L. Pseudopupæ E. Pseudopupas [ NL. See Pseudo-, and Pupa. ] (Zool.) A stage intermediate between the larva and pupa of bees and certain other hymenopterous insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Puppy. ] (Zool.) (a) A young dog; a puppy. (b) a young seal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Pupped p. pr. & vb. n. Pupping. ] To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. L. Pupæ E. Pupas [ L. pupa girl. doll, puppet, fem. of pupus. Cf. Puppet. ] 1. (Zool.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Among insects belonging to the higher orders, as the Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, the pupa is inactive and takes no food; in the lower orders it is active and takes food, and differs little from the imago except in the rudimentary state of the sexual organs, and of the wings in those that have wings when adult. The term pupa is sometimes applied to other invertebrates in analogous stages of development. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coarctate pupa, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Zool.) To become a pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) the act of becoming a pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Zool.) A pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cider brandy. [ Local, U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pupa + -gerous. ] (Zool.) Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvæ which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Too far in years to be a pupil now. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person under a guardian; a ward. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Learner; disciple; tyro. -- See Scholar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a pupil. [ 1913 Webster ]

As sons of kings, loving in pupilage,
Have turned to tyrants when they came to power. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pupillarité. See Pupillary. ] (Scots Law) The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pupillaris: cf. F. pupillaire. See Pupil. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pupilla pupil of the eye + -meter. ] (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of the pupil of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Pupiparous. ] (Zool.) A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pupa + L. parere to bring forth. ] (Zool.) (a) Bearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured larvæ, or larval skins, of certain Diptera. (b) Of or pertaining to the Pupipara. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Pupivorous. ] (Zool.) A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvæ and pupæ of insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pupa + L. vorare to devour. ] (Zool.) Feeding on the pupæ of insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Publican. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. popet, OF. poupette; akin to F. poupée a doll, probably from L. puppa, pupa, a girl, doll, puppet. Cf. Poupeton, Pupa, Pupil, Puppy. ] [ Written also poppet. ] 1. A small image in the human form; a doll. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play. [ 1913 Webster ]

At the pipes of some carved organ move,
The gilded puppets dance. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mach.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Puppet master. Same as Puppetman. --
Puppet play, a puppet show. --
Puppet player, one who manages the motions of puppets. --
Puppet show, a mock drama performed by puppets moved by wires. --
Puppet valve, a valve in the form of a circular disk, which covers a hole in its seat, and opens by moving bodily away from the seat while remaining parallel with it, -- used in steam engines, pumps, safety valves, etc. Its edge is often beveled, and fits in a conical recess in the seat when the valve is closed. See the valves shown in Illusts. of Plunger pump, and Safety valve, under Plunger, and Safety. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the nature of a puppet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A master of a puppet show. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Puppetry of the English laws of divorce. Chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Puppies [ F. poupée doll, puppet. See Puppet, and cf. Pup, n. ] 1. (Zool.) The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person. [ 1913 Webster ]

I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Puppied p. pr. & vb. n. Puppying. ] To bring forth whelps; to pup. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a puppy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence. A. Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]