Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Marked with fine lines, as if with a pencil or other sharp-pointed instrument; decorated or executed in delicate ornament or lines, as distinguished from broad masses of color or the like.
- In zoology and botany: Tufted; brushy; penicillate.
- Marked with fine lines, as if scratched with a pen or painted with a fine brush; specifically, marked with a series of concentric lines, as every feather of the body-plumage of a dark brahma or a partridge cochin hen.
- Radiated; having pencils of rays.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil.
- adjective Radiated; having pencils of rays.
- adjective (Nat. Hist.) Marked with parallel or radiating lines.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pencil .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective drawn or written with a pencil
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Examples
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I felt as if I were back in high school after baseball tryouts seeing my name penciled next toB-squad backup right fielder.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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I felt as if I were back in high school after baseball tryouts seeing my name penciled next toB-squad backup right fielder.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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I felt as if I were back in high school after baseball tryouts seeing my name penciled next toB-squad backup right fielder.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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I felt as if I were back in high school after baseball tryouts seeing my name penciled next toB-squad backup right fielder.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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Irwin, 20, a former WCHA rookie-of-the-year, found her name penciled in on both rosters and will make her senior national team debut at the worlds.
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There were other photos at different angles, and a detailed outline of the wound from the coroner's office with a lot of medical jargon penciled in.
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There were other photos at different angles, and a detailed outline of the wound from the coroner's office with a lot of medical jargon penciled in.
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That really is Gordon Beckham's name penciled in at second base for the White Sox 'exhibition game today against Australia's World Baseball Classic team.
South Side Sox 2009
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Many artists now work on computers ( "penciled" and "inked" are just digital metaphors).
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It is very pretty, and it has my name penciled in the back for first dibs on borrowing it: -)
When all else in you turns and runs karenhealey 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word penciled
"Marked with fine lines, as if scratched with a pen or painted with a fine brush; specifically, marked with a series of concentric lines, as every feather of the body-plumage of a dark brahma or a partridge cochin hen."
-- from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
June 15, 2017