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Pen   /pɛn/   Listen
noun
Pen  n.  
1.
A feather. (Obs.)
2.
A wing. (Obs.)
3.
An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving. "Graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock."
4.
Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. "Those learned pens."
5.
(Zool.) The internal shell of a squid.
6.
(Zool.) A female swan; contrasted with cob, the male swan. (Prov. Eng.)
Bow pen. See Bow-pen.
Dotting pen, a pen for drawing dotted lines.
Drawing pen, or Ruling pen, a pen for ruling lines having a pair of blades between which the ink is contained.
Fountain pen, Geometric pen. See under Fountain, and Geometric.
Music pen, a pen having five points for drawing the five lines of the staff.
Pen and ink, or pen-and-ink, executed or done with a pen and ink; as, a pen and ink sketch.
Pen feather. A pin feather. (Obs.)
Pen name. See under Name.
Sea pen (Zool.), a pennatula. (Usually written sea-pen)


Pen  n.  
1.
A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs. "My father stole two geese out of a pen."
2.
A penitentiary(6); a prison. (Slang)


verb
Pen  v. t.  (past & past part. penned; pres. part. penning)  To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet. "A prayer elaborately penned."


Pen  v. t.  (past & past part. penned or pent; pres. part. penning)  To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose. "Away with her, and pen her up." "Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve."





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"Pen" Quotes from Famous Books



... displayed away from their native habitat and the writing outfit which he picked up in Vienna turns out to be faulty and treacherous and inkily tearful. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a fountain pen—that weeps! And why, when a fountain pen makes up its mind to cry a spell, does it crawl clear across a steamer trunk and bury its sobbing countenance in the bosom ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb
... the vniuersity pen plaies well; they smell too much of that writer Ouid, and that writer Metamorphosis,[xi:1] and talke too much of Proserpina and Juppiter. Why, heres our fellow Shakespeare puts them all downe, I,[xi:2] and Ben Jonson too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow! he brought ...
— Kemps Nine Daies Wonder - Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich • William Kemp
... with pen, inkhorn, and paper, at a period when few could write, 'booking' the dead. We may, I think, take it for granted that here the letter b had fallen over into ...
— Literary Blunders • Henry B. Wheatley
... therefor, and also a correct register of every child under five years of age who is given out, adopted, taken away, or indentured from such place [v.03 p.0098] to or by any one, together with the name and residence of the person so adopting" (Pen. Code, s. ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various
... fire in your room goes out, drop your pen, or, if reading, your book, and go out too; If you remain, and continue your work, you may regret it. Many a student in the universities, anxious to get on with his studies, has worked in a cold room and paid the penalty with—Pneumonia, ...
— Life and Literature - Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, - and classified in alphabetical order • J. Purver Richardson


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