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
n. A sketch made in pencil. vb. (present participle of pencil English)
WordNet
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 "pencilling".
What surprised me, brothers, was the way that had been cleaned up, there being no longer any dirty ballooning slovos from the rots of the Dignified Labourers, not any dirty parts of the body added to their naked plotts by dirty-minded pencilling malchicks.
I said, and when Morgan passed me a scribbling pad, I began pencilling a sketch from memory.
Stornoway, pencilling in the direction and speed for the twenty-four hours commencing 05.
He worked quickly, but with care, pencilling his instructions at the foot of each page and initialling them with a regal'S.
His thick hairy hands juggled with the parallel rule, pencilling a cross just east of our intended course.