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Bow-pen′cil.

A form of compasses of the smaller kind which are capable of delicate adjustment for describing minute circles and arcs of small radius. The mode of adjustment is similar to the bow-pen. It is also tolerably evident from the figure. A black lead-pencil pared down to a small size, or the lead from a pencil, is clamped in the socket, and is advanced as it wears or is shaved away in sharpening. See bow-pen, B.

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