A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.
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.
Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.
To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.
Handheld writing implement which uses solid lead or graphite to mark writing surface.
a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood
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"
write, draw, or trace with a pencil; "he penciled a figure"
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See "graphite", also, "colored pencils."
Originally pencil means a fine brush, and one still uses pencilling for the fine black decoration on porcelain. But the lead pencil encased in a thin wooden tube – perhaps the most common and least noticed of human implements – was a new invention in the 1560's. In the 1700's some of the best, such ...
If the pencil is blunt and you are trying to write with it it denotes a fear of being criticised for being slovenly. If the point of a pencil breaks while you are writing with it in a dream be wary of accidents.
a. It used to mean an artist's brush. b. In the present day context, it represents a drawing or writing instrument made by encasing a stick of graphite in wood or metal.
To dream of pencils, denotes favorable occupations. For a young woman to write with one, foretells she will be fortunate in marriage, if she does not rub out words in that case, she will be disappointed in her lover.
An implement for drawing or writing, consisting of a thin rod of graphite, coloured wax, chalk, charcoal, or another such substance, either encased in wood or held in a mechanical holder.
A thin rod (the lead) of graphite, coloured wax or charcoal encased in wood used as a drawing or writing implement. Mechanical pencils, grip the lead in a pen-like holder. The graphite in pencils is a mixture of graphite and clay: the more clay the harder the pencil and the lighter the mark it makes (a 6H for example); the less clay the softer the lead and the blacker the mark (an 8B for example).
Graphite bonded with a binder and supported in wood or a wrapper.