Definitions for penciling

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penciling pen·cil·ing

Spelling: [pen-suh-ling]

IPA: /ˈpɛn sə lɪŋ/

Penciling is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in penciling (cegiilnnp).

Definitions for penciling

noun

1. work or markings done with or as if with a pencil or brush, especially fine or delicate work done with a pencil or brush on a painting or drawing.
2. a drawing or sketch made with a pencil.
3. a slender tube of wood, metal, plastic, etc., containing a core or strip of graphite, a solid coloring material, or the like, used for writing or drawing.
4. a stick of cosmetic coloring material for use on the eyebrows, eyelids, etc.
5. anything shaped or used like a pencil, as a stick of medicated material:
6. a narrow set of lines, light rays, or the like, diverging from or converging to a point:
7. a slender, pointed piece of a substance used for marking.
8. style or skill in drawing or delineation:
9. Mathematics. the collection of lines, planes, or surfaces passing through a given point or set of points and satisfying a given equation or condition.
10. Archaic. an artist's paintbrush, especially for fine work.

Verb phrases

1. pencil in, to schedule or list tentatively, as or as if by writing down in pencil rather than in ink:

verb (used with object)

1. to write, draw, mark, or color with, or as if with, a pencil.
2. to use a pencil on.

Origin of penciling

First recorded in 1700-10; pencil + -ing¹

Examples for penciling

The penciling of this note gave Rodney time to recover himself.

The penciling is like that of the Rouen but lighter in color consisting of a brown penciling on a fawn colored ground.

penciling a brief note he gave it to a soldier of his company and bade him take it to the guard tents.

In the females solid yellow bills, fawn colored breasts and absence of penciling must be avoided.

The Secretary nodded, penciling Frawley's correction on the paper.

Avoid lack of white on the neck in both sexes and avoid females which are lacking in penciling.

The more elaborate patterns on earthenware, and all those on porcelain, are finished by penciling in.

She put on her white suit, and dabbing rouge on her cheeks and penciling her eyes, she went forth into the sunshiny streets.

penciling corrections on the map, they retraced their route, making only one mistake along the way.

The girl lifted the brows that were dark enough to require no penciling.