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- Pencil - n. - A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.
- Pencil - n. - A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, 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.
- Pencil - n. - Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.
- Pencil - n. - An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
- Pencil - n. - A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point.
- Pencil - n. - A small medicated bougie.
- Pencil - v. t. - To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.
- Penciled - imp. & p. p. - of Pencil
- Penciled - a. - Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil.
- Penciled - a. - Radiated; having pencils of rays.
- Penciled - a. - Marked with parallel or radiating lines.
- Penciling - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Pencil
- Penciling - n. - The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture.
- Penciling - n. - Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint in a brick wall.
- Pencillate - a. - Alt. of Pencillated
- Pencillated - a. - Shaped like a pencil; penicillate.
- Pencilled - - of Pencil
- Pencilling - - of Pencil
- Pencil - n. - A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point.
- Pointal - n. - A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages.
- Optigraph - a. - A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper.
- Planchette - n. - A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.
- Vergency - n. - The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.
- Handling - v. t. - The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch.
- Counterdraw - v. t. - To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.
- Keelivine - n. - A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen.
- Crayon - n. - A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
- Indicator - n. - An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the piston rod of the engine. See Indicator card (below).
- Caoutchouc - n. - A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization.
- Mark - v. t. - To leave a trace, scratch, scar, or other mark, upon, or any evidence of action; as, a pencil marks paper; his hobnails marked the floor.
- Mark - n. - A trace, dot, line, imprint, or discoloration, although not regarded as a token or sign; a scratch, scar, stain, etc.; as, this pencil makes a fine mark.
- Penciling - n. - The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture.
- Touch - v. t. - To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- Ruler - n. - A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a).
- Limn - v. t. - To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush.