pencil
Speech parts
1. pencil - Noun
2. pencil - Verb
Meaning
A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.
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.
Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.
An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point.
A small medicated bougie.
To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
I have always been a pencil.
The pencil of God has no eraser.