The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pencil \Pen"cil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penciledor Pencilled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Penciling or Pencilling.]
To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.
--Cowper.
Where nature pencils butterflies on flowers.
--Harte.
Penciling \Pen"cil*ing\, n. [Written also pencilling.]
The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture.
(Brickwork) Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint in a brick wall.
--Knight.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of pencilling English) vb. (present participle of pencil English)
Usage examples of "penciling".
The author concluded his paper with a few remarks on copying inks and indelible inks, showing that a good copying ink has yet to be sought for, and that indelible inks, which will resist the pencilings and washings of the chemist and the forger, need never be looked for.
He converted one of the Devil's imps into a full-breasted nude woman suggestive of Eve, and he dabbled generally with the symbolism like an editor blue penciling a manuscript he did not understand.