What does № 2 pencil mean?
№ 2 pencil means (now chiefly historical) A paintbrush..
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/ˈpɛnsəl/ · noun
(now chiefly historical) A paintbrush..
But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt[…].
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?
He requested three things of Sir Joshua Reynolds:—To forgive him thirty pounds which he had borrowed of him; to read the Bible; and never to use his pencil on a Sunday.
When, by the pencil becoming oblique to the surface, the vergency produced on the pencil becomes changed, the primary and secondary focal points, V and H, separate […]
A drillable robot is capable of placing its end link in any orientation in the pencil of planes containing its first link.
Let l and m be two hyperparallel lines. All the transversals to l and m that form congruent corresponding angles with l and m lie in a pencil.
It is almost entirely of a slatey colour, with yellow bill and feet, but the feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts each terminate in a rigid, glossy pencil or tuft of a vivid crimson.
And most important of all, Cully now had 'The Pencil', that most coveted of Las Vegas powers.
Use № 2 pencil when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
№ 2 pencil means (now chiefly historical) A paintbrush..
Common synonyms include lead pencil.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt[…].
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