hieroglyphic vs pencil

hieroglyphic

noun
  • A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus 

  • Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol. 

  • Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph. 

adj
  • difficult to decipher 

  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols 

pencil

noun
  • A paintbrush. 

  • A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. 

  • A family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane. 

  • An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. 

verb
  • To write (something) using a pencil. 

  • To mark with, or as if with, a pencil. 

How often have the words hieroglyphic and pencil occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )