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English
Noun
pensill (plural pensills)
- Obsolete spelling of pencil.
1631, Luke Fox, Narratives of Voyages Towards the North-West, published 2001, →ISBN, instructions to Iohn Coatesworth, page 168:Fifthly, being thus on land with your compasse, set all lands or islands in sight, draw the form with your paper and pensill, and estimate their distance.
- Obsolete spelling of pencel.
1483, Richard III, “Richard III. to Piers Courteis, Keeper of his Wardrobe”, in Letters of the Kings of England, published 1846, page 153:[…] forty trumpet banners of sarsenet; seven hundred and forty pensills; three hundred and fifty pensills of tarter; four standards of sarsenet with boars; […]
Adjective
pensill
- Obsolete spelling of pensile.
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 165:However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon [...] is of no slender antiquity [...].
Anagrams
Icelandic
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin penicillum, probably via Danish pensel.
Pronunciation
Noun
pensill m (genitive singular pensils, nominative plural penslar)
- brush, paintbrush
- Synonym: málningarbursti
Declension
Declension of pensill (masculine)