Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Peniculus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PENIC'ULUS. A paint-brush. (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 36. § 11.) Same as PENICILLUM, which some editions have in the passage cited.

2. A brush for dusting, made out of the tuft of a cow's tail. Plaut. Men. i. 1. 1. Ib. ii. 3. 45.