Pen

Pen (pen)
n.	(?)
Pen
[OE. penne, OF. penne, pene, F. penne, fr. L. penna.]

A feather.

[Obs.] Spenser.

A wing.

[Obs.] Milton.

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. Job xix. 24.

Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.

"Those learned pens." Fuller.

The internal shell of a squid.

A female swan.

[Prov. Eng.]

Bow pen. See Bow-pen. -- Dotting pen, a pen for drawing dotted lines. -- Drawing, 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 (Zoöl.), a pennatula. [Usually written sea- pen.]

Pen

Pen (pen)
v. t.
Pen

To write] to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.

"A prayer elaborately penned." Milton.

Pen

Pen (pen)
v. t.
Pen

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." Shak.

Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve. Milton.

Pen

Pen (pen)
n.
Pen

A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.

My father stole two geese out of a pen. Shak.

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