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Penciled :: Penciled (a.) Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil..

Delineate :: Delineate (v. t.) To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation..

Outline :: Outline (n.) In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated..

Downstroke :: Downstroke (n.) A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.

Ruler :: Ruler (n.) A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a)..

Counterdraw :: Counterdraw (v. t.) To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance..

Keelivine :: Keelivine (n.) A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen.

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point..

Drawing :: Drawing (n.) The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn..

Handling :: Handling (v. t.) The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch..

Scribbet :: Scribbet (n.) A painter's pencil.

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) 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..

Pointal :: Pointal (n.) A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages.

Stub :: Stub (n.) The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar..

Bow-pencil :: Bow-pencil (n.) Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil..

Rule :: Rule (n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book..

Vergency :: Vergency (n.) The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays..

Lead :: Lead (n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils..

Pencillated :: Pencillated (a.) Shaped like a pencil; penicillate.

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors..

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