PENCILLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pencilled mean? 

• PENCILLED (adjective)
  The adjective PENCILLED has 1 sense:

1. drawn or written with a pencil

  Familiarity information: PENCILLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENCILLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drawn or written with a pencil

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Synonyms:

penciled; pencilled

Context example:

the penciled message

Participle:

pencil (write, draw, or trace with a pencil)

 Context examples 

There were the pencilled marks and memorandums on the wainscot by the window. He had done it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

That night, on going to bed, I forgot to prepare in imagination the Barmecide supper of hot roast potatoes, or white bread and new milk, with which I was wont to amuse my inward cravings: I feasted instead on the spectacle of ideal drawings, which I saw in the dark; all the work of my own hands: freely pencilled houses and trees, picturesque rocks and ruins, Cuyp-like groups of cattle, sweet paintings of butterflies hovering over unblown roses, of birds picking at ripe cherries, of wren's nests enclosing pearl-like eggs, wreathed about with young ivy sprays.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

No charm was wanting, no defect was perceptible; the young girl had regular and delicate lineaments; eyes shaped and coloured as we see them in lovely pictures, large, and dark, and full; the long and shadowy eyelash which encircles a fine eye with so soft a fascination; the pencilled brow which gives such clearness; the white smooth forehead, which adds such repose to the livelier beauties of tint and ray; the cheek oval, fresh, and smooth; the lips, fresh too, ruddy, healthy, sweetly formed; the even and gleaming teeth without flaw; the small dimpled chin; the ornament of rich, plenteous tresses—all advantages, in short, which, combined, realise the ideal of beauty, were fully hers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They woke, they kindled: first, they glowed in the bright tint of her cheek, which till this hour I had never seen but pale and bloodless; then they shone in the liquid lustre of her eyes, which had suddenly acquired a beauty more singular than that of Miss Temple's—a beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)