noun 1. an object for writing with, using ink ○ I’ve lost my red pen – can I borrow yours? ○ If you haven’t got a pen you can always write in pencil. [ ballpoint pen 2. a fenced enclosure for animals such as sheep ○ They put the sheep in a pen overnight. ○ Somehow the goats managed to get out of their pen. ■ verb 1. to put animals such as sheep in a pen ○ The sheep were penned while waiting to be taken to the market. 2. □ to be penned in to be in a small space, closely surrounded by other things or people ○ She felt penned in, living in the same house as her husband’s parents. 3. to write something with a pen ○ He penned a short letter to the local paper. (NOTE: penning – penned)
pen
n. [OE. penne, OF. penne, pene, F. penne, fr. L. penna.]
1. A feather. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A wing. [Obs.] Milton.
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.” Job xix. 24.
4. Fig.: A writer, or his style; as he has a sharp pen. ´Those learned pens.´ Fuller.
5. (Zoöl.) The internal shell of a squid.
6. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.) 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.]
1. A feather. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A wing. [Obs.] Milton.
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.” Job xix. 24.
4. Fig.: A writer, or his style; as he has a sharp pen. ´Those learned pens.´ Fuller.
5. (Zoöl.) The internal shell of a squid.
6. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.) 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
v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penned p. pr. & vb. n. Penning ] To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as to pen a sonnet. ´A prayer elaborately penned.´ Milton.
pen
v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penned or Pent ; p. pr. & vb. n. Penning.] [OE. pennen, AS. pennan in on-pennan to unfasten, prob. from the same source as pin, and orig. meaning, to fasten with a peg.See Pin, n. & v.] 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.
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