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Pencil
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PENCIL. An instrument made of plumbago, black lead, red chalk, or other suitable substance, for writing without ink.
     2. It has been holden that a will written with a pencil, could riot, on this account, be annulled. 1 Phillim. R. 1; 2 Phillim. 173.



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There really are students who panic at test time, and find the prospect of filling in bubbles with Number 2 pencils a less-than-ideal way to show what they really know and can really do.
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