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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



... who sat with a pen in his hand and a paper on his knee, and from him to the surveyor holding one or two Government appointments, ...
— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss
... refreshing from the presence of the Lord. At one of the meetings, a vast number of the white inhabitants of the place, and many coloured people, attended—many no doubt from curiosity to hear what the old coloured woman had to say. One, a great scripturian, fixed himself behind the door with pen and ink, in order to take down the discourse in short-hand; but the Almighty Being anointed me with such a portion of his Spirit, that he cast away his paper and pen, and heard the discourse with patience, and was much affected, for the Lord ...
— Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman • Anonymous
... talk, make the following preparations very carefully: Attach several thicknesses of your drawing paper to your board, leaving the outer sheet free at the bottom by tacking at the top only. Next, with a sharp pen-knife, cut a hole in the outer sheet, indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 45, and throw away the piece which has been cut out. The object of this preparation is this: When you draw the portrait of Washington, represented in Fig. 45, a portion of ...
— Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear - Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks • B.J. Griswold
... was taken to the city jail and thrown without ceremony upon the cement floor of the "bull pen." In the surrounding cells were his comrades who had been arrested in the union hall. Here he lay in a wet heap, twitching with agony. A tiny bright stream of blood gathered at his side and trailed slowly along the floor. Only ...
— The Centralia Conspiracy • Ralph Chaplin
... recorded by his own pen, one of his friends asserts that he acknowledged his deep obligations to Divine mercy for being saved when he fell into an exceeding deep pit, as he was traveling in the dark; for having been preserved in sickness; and also for providential goodness ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan


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