pensill

English

Noun

pensill (plural pensills)

1. Obsolete spelling of pencil.
   • 1631, Luke Fox, Narratives of Voyages Towards the North-West‎^[1], 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.

2. Obsolete spelling of pencel.
   • 1483, Richard III, “Richard III. to Piers Courteis, Keeper of his Wardrobe”, in Letters of the Kings of England‎^[2], 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

1. Obsolete spelling of pensile.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 165:

     However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon [...] is of no slender antiquity [...].

---

Icelandic

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin penicillum, probably via Danish pensel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰɛnsɪtl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnsɪtl

Noun

pensill m (genitive singular pensils, nominative plural penslar)

1. brush, paintbrush

Declension

declension of pensill

m-s1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pensill	pensillinn	penslar	penslarnir
accusative	pensil	pensilinn	pensla	penslana
dative	pensli	penslinum	penslum	penslunum
genitive	pensils	pensilsins	pensla	penslanna

Synonyms

• málningarbursti