pencil : Idioms & Phrases

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blue-pencil

  • verb cut or eliminate
    edit; delete.
    • she edited the juiciest scenes
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bow-pencil

Bow"-pen`cil noun
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  1. Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil.
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Camel's-hair pencil

  • a small brush used by painters in water colors, made of camel's hair or similar materials.
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eyebrow pencil

  • noun makeup provided by a cosmetic pencil that is used to darken the eyebrows
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Hair pencil

  • a brush or fine hair, for painting; generally called by the name of the hair used; as, a camel's hair pencil, a sable's hair pencil, etc.
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Lead pencil

  • noun pencil that has graphite as the marking substance
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  • a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead).
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pencil box

  • noun a box for holding pencils
    pencil box.
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Pencil case

  • noun a box for holding pencils
    pencil box.
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  • a holder for pencil lead.
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pencil cedar

  • noun any of several junipers with wood suitable for making pencils
    pencil cedar.
  • noun wood of a pencil cedar tree; used for making pencils
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pencil cedar tree

  • noun any of several junipers with wood suitable for making pencils
    pencil cedar.
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pencil eraser

  • noun an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil
    rubber; rubber eraser.
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Pencil flower

  • (Bot.), an American perennial leguminous herb (Stylosanthes elatior).
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Pencil lead

  • noun mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
    lead.
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  • a slender rod of black lead, or the like, adapted for insertion in a holder.
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pencil pusher

  • noun a clerk who does boring paperwork
    penpusher.
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pencil sharpener

  • noun a rotary implement for sharpening the point on pencils
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sable's hair pencil

  • noun an artist's brush made of sable hairs
    sable brush; sable.
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Slate pencil

  • noun a pencil of soft slate (or soapstone) used for writing on a slate
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  • a pencil of slate, or of soapstone, used for writing on a slate.
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Stylographic pencil

  • a pencil used in stylography.
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