Pencil
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A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors. [1913 Webster] With subtile pencil depainted was this storie. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, graphite, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc. [1913 Webster] 4. (Opt.) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. [1913 Webster] 5. (Geom.) A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point. [1913 Webster] 6. (Med.) A small medicated bougie. [1913 Webster] Pencil case, a holder for pencil lead. Pencil flower (Bot.), an American perennial leguminous herb (Stylosanthes elatior). Pencil lead, a slender rod of black lead, or the like, adapted for insertion in a holder. [1913 Webster]  pencil n 1: a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood 2: graphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication; "the words were scribbled in pencil"; "this artist's favorite medium is pencil" 3: a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point 4: a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face; "an eyebrow pencil" v 1: write, draw, or trace with a pencil; "he penciled a figure"  PENCIL Pictorial ENCodIng Language. On-line system to display line structures. Sammet 1969, 675.  pencil [pensl] Bleistift  pencil [pensl] crayon  pencil ceruza kisecset rudacska  pencil lapis, matita  pencil [pensl] plumbum  pencil [pensl] potlood  pencil [pensl] lápis  pencil [pensl] карандаш  pencil [pensl] lápiz  pencil [pensl] blyertspenna  pencil [pensl] pensil  PENCIL. An instrument made of plumbago, black lead, red chalk, or other suitable substance, for writing without ink. 2. It has been holden that a will written with a pencil, could riot, on this account, be annulled. 1 Phillim. R. 1; 2 Phillim. 173.  pencil Bleistift m; Stift m pencil mit Bleistift schreiben; mit Bleistift zeichnen  175 Moby Thesaurus words for "pencil": X ray, actinic ray, actinism, air brush, art paper, atomic beam, atomic ray, beam, beam of light, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, brand, brush, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, cartoon, chalk, chalk up, charcoal, check, check off, cicatrize, color, copy, copy out, crayon, crosshatch, dapple, dash, dash off, daub, define, delimit, delineate, demarcate, depict, design, diagram, discolor, doodle, dot, draft, draw, draw up, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, easel, edit, enface, engrave, engross, fixative, fleck, freckle, gamma ray, gash, genre, gleam, ground, hatch, impress, imprint, infrared ray, inscribe, invisible radiation, lay figure, leam, limn, line, lines, make a mark, make a recension, make out, mark, mark off, mark out, maulstick, medium, mottle, movement, nick, notch, paint, paint a picture, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, pastel, patch, pen, pepper, photon, picture, picturize, pigments, point, portray, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, push the pen, put in writing, radiation, radiorays, ray, ray of light, recense, record, revise, rewrite, ribbon, ribbon of light, riddle, scar, scarify, school, score, scotch, scratch, scratchboard, scribe, scrive, scroll, scumble, seal, seam, shade, siccative, sketch, sketchbook, sketchpad, solar rays, spatula, speck, speckle, spill ink, splotch, spoil paper, spot, spray gun, stain, stamp, stencil, stigmatize, streak, stream, stream of light, streamer, striate, stripe, stump, style, superscribe, tattoo, the grand style, tick, tick off, tint, trace, transcribe, type, ultraviolet ray, underline, underscore, varnish, violet ray, write, write down, write out Pencil related |
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