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(), 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. (Zol.) The internal shell of a squid. 6. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zol.) 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 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. Pen n.[From Pen to shut in.] A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs. My father stole two geese out of a pen. Shak. スポンサード リンク
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