| • | A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc. |
| • | An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. |
| • | A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point. |
| • | A small medicated bougie. |
| • | To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw. |
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