[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.", "the letters, designs, etc., produced on a surface by this method."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to mark or paint (a surface) by means of a stencil.", "to produce (letters, figures, designs, etc.) by means of a stencil."]}]