Pensill

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of pensile. alt-of, obsolete

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

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of pencil. alt-of, obsolete

    "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. 2
    Obsolete spelling of pencel. alt-of, obsolete

    "[…] forty trumpet banners of sarsenet; seven hundred and forty pensills; three hundred and fifty pensills of tarter; four standards of sarsenet with boars; […]"

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