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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: pencil)
WordNet
adj. drawn or written with a pencil; "a penciled sketch"; "the penciled message" [syn: penciled]
n. 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"
a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point
a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face; "an eyebrow pencil"
[also: pencilling, pencilled]
v. write, draw, or trace with a pencil; "he penciled a figure"
[also: pencilling, pencilled]
See pencil
Usage examples of "pencilled".
Her pencilled eyebrows were plucked into a smoothly arched line, giving her that expression of boredom and, at the same time, incredulous astonishment, which was cultivated by the film stars of that era, though I doubt that Winifred was ever much astonished.
Inside were two sheets of paper, covered on both sides with boldly pencilled writing.
Scenes were blocked out with extreme care, and pencilled guide lines told of the minute exactitude which Pickman used in getting the right perspective and proportions.
Quickly I pencilled in the bearings of the two extreme peaks of the Old Men from the break, and then used the protractor to measure the angle they subtended.
He saw that Souter had left his papers behind, and that he had pencilled something next to several vague jottings, the sketch of a sailing vessel and the words, England Expects!
They were waiting by the all scrawled-over municipal wall-painting of the nagoy dignity of labour, bare vecks and cheenas stern at the wheels of industry, like I said, with all this dirt pencilled from their rots by naughty malchicks.
He swung round to scowl at the third midshipman, an undersized youngster who was peering through steel-rimmed spectacles at some pencilled calculations he had been making.
The sarcastic annotations at various points, enclosed in brackets and italicised that they may be distinguished from any other comments, were taken from the pencilled remarks of that gentleman, intended for the improvement of a member of the family in which he resided, and are by no means to be attributed to the harmless pen which reproduces them.
It had been an outlet for his frustration, filled with the excitement he felt for each new weather pattern, the sense of discovery as the first pencilled circle - a fall in pressure of a single millibar perhaps reported by a ship out in the Atlantic - indicated the birth of a new storm centre.
Morgan glanced again at the wind speed and direction indicators, pencilled a note or two on a piece of paper and passed it to the pilot.
He steadied himself and then placed a pencilled message on the chart table.
I made a note of the address she'd pencilled in at the time of her first visit.
The first was a scrap of pencilled map, the other a section of aerial photograph.
One of my favorite snapshots, which I'd stolen away with Re: when I left High Poimit Farmn, is pencilled on the back in Mom's handwriting, Chickadee & Baby Judd, Xmas 1964.
Never had he even imagined so perfect an oval, such a sweet, fair forehead, such delicately pencilled brows, so fine and straight a nose, such wonderful beauty of mouth and chin.