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English Dictionary: P.E.N. by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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. [bd]A prayer elaborately
      penned.[b8] --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pen \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. [bd]Away with her, and pen her up.[b8] --Shak.
  
               Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
                                                                              --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pen \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.
            [bd]Those learned pens.[b8] --Fuller.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.) The internal shell of a squid.
  
      6. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo[94]l.) A female swan. [Prov.
            Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pen \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {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} (Zo[94]l.), a pennatula. [Usually written
            {sea-pen}.]
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