2. Noun. A sketch made in pencil. ¹
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Definition of Pencilling
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pencilling
Literary usage of Pencilling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Topographical Drawing and Sketching: Including Applications of Photography by Henry Albert Reed (1886)
"pencilling the Details.—The positions of the details are first carefully determined
... The following order to be observed in the pencilling is found from ..."
2. The Grammar of Painting and Engraving by Charles Blanc (1874)
"Beside this style of engraving is placed the imitation of pencilling, ...
The pencilling is imitated with a little instrument. called a roulette, ..."
3. The Harbinger: A May-gift by Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent (1833)
"... pencilling. WELL, this is really quite unsettled weather ; A balmy morning
welcomes in the day, A pleasant noon succeeds, and altogether The hours glide ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"In fine, we believe that unprejudiced readers will rise from a perusal of the
original ' pencilling^' with the fixed impression, that although the writer ..."
5. Industrial Drawing: Comprising the Description and Uses of Drawing by Dennis Hart Mahan, Dwinel F. Thompson (1905)
"pencilling a drawing. This consists in locating the lines of the drawing ...
it is well to ink some parts before finishing the pencilling of the whole. 14-. ..."
6. Elements of Mechanical Drawing: The Use of Instruments, Theory of Projection by Gardner Chace Anthony (1909)
"pencilling. Good pencilling is a prerequisite to good inking. A drawing poorly
pencilled is seldom well inked. Of first importance is the sharpening of the ..."
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