brushwise en · ADV
Etymology
From brush + -wise.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, rare) In the manner of a brush.
They made their ink from lamp-black and gum-solution, their pens — used brushwise at first, but later cut like quills — from rushes.
1993, Thomas Kingston Derry, Trevor Illtyd Williams, A short history of technology: from the earliest times to A.D. 1900: