Pencil

Quick meaning: Pencil is a noun meaning (now chiefly historical) A paintbrush.

Meaning

(now chiefly historical) A paintbrush.

More Meanings

1. A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.
2. (optics) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
3. (medicine, obsolete, rare) A small medicated bougie.
4. (zoology, formerly) A small, thin tuft of hairs or feathers.
5. (gambling) Ellipsis of power of the pencil.
6. (transitive) To write (something) using a pencil.
7. (geometry) A family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane.

Example Sentences

But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt[…].

And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.

why is it not lawfull for every man to pourtray himself with his pen, as it was for him to doe it with a pensell?

A drillable robot is capable of placing its end link in any orientation in the pencil of planes containing its first link.

Word Forms

• pencils
• pensill
• penciling
• pencilling
• penciled
• pencilled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include marker, crayon, ink, stylus, eyeliner, mine.

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