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Definition of Pencils
1. pencil [v] - See also: pencil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pencils
Literary usage of Pencils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"FABER, New- York (P 73), has a l"|e walnut case, and makes a fine display of
l*íi-pencils of his own American manufacture: rubber bands for stationers, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The cedar in which pencils are cased is cut into two seto of rectangular slips
... Very many pencils—but not usually good English qualities—are lacquered or ..."
3. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1899)
"The Aberration of Oblique pencils. In treatises on geometrical optics it is usual
to calculate the aberrations of mirrors and lenses for direct pencils, ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Black lead pencils are made of graphite or plumbago, which contains no lead
whatever in its composition, but is in reality almost pure carbon. ..."
5. A Treatise on Conic Sections: Containing an Account of Some of the Most by George Salmon (1879)
"Thus, then (see Art. 59), the polars of two points with regard to a system of
conies through four points form two homographic pencils of lines. ..."
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