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Pick :: Pick (n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture..

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

Trammel :: Trammel (n.) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil..

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

Penciled :: Penciled (a.) Marked with parallel or radiating lines.

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke..

Planchette :: Planchette (n.) A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import..

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

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

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

Penciling :: Penciling (n.) Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint in a brick wall.

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc..

Indicator :: Indicator (n.) An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the pist

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

Line :: Line (n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line..

Crayon :: Crayon (n.) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

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

Point :: Point (n.) To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also figuratively; as, to point a moral..

Penciling :: Penciling (n.) The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture..

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