Pen
[pen] or [pɛn]
Definition
(noun.) female swan.
(noun.) a writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
(noun.) an enclosure for confining livestock.
Checker: Zachariah--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A feather.
(n.) A wing.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
(n.) The internal shell of a squid.
(n.) A female swan.
(v. t.) To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
(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.
(n.) A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Write, compose, indite.[2]. Incage, coop, confine, enclose, impound, imprison, incarcerate, shut up, shut in, hem in, wall in, rail in.
n. Enclosure, COOP, PENFOLD, pinfold, pound.
Checker: Reginald
Definition
v.t. to shut up: to confine in a small enclosure:—pr.p. pen′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. penned or pent.—n. a small enclosure: a fold for animals: a coop.
n. one of the large feathers of the wing of a bird: an instrument used for writing formerly made of the feather of a bird but now of steel &c.: style of writing: a female swan—opp. to Cob.—v.t. to write to commit to paper:—pr.p. pen′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. penned.—adj. Pen′-and-ink′ written literary: executed with pen and ink as a drawing.—ns. Pen′-case a holder for a pen or pens; Pen′craft skill in penmanship: the art of composition; Pen′-driv′er a clerk; Pen′ful what one can write with one dip of ink; Pen′-hold′er a holder for pens or nibs; Pen′-wī′per a piece of cloth leather &c. for wiping pens after use; Pen′-wom′an a female writer.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a pen, foretells you are unfortunately being led into serious complications by your love of adventure. If the pen refuses to write, you will be charged with a serious breach of morality.
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Examples
- She had written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The two or three lines which follow contain fragments of words only, mingled with blots and scratches of the pen. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is called a siphon recorder because the record is made by a little glass siphon down which a flow of ink is maintained like a fountain pen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Eustacia might possibly decline to use her pen--it was rather her way to work silently--and surprise him by appearing at his door. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- My pen is running away into mere speculation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Can I forward you a bundle of pens, or anything? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He drew out a note-case and one of the new stylographic pens. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And now for the pens. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- May I hold the pens? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was only in 1645, after a corresponding attempt in 1556 had failed, that the swine-pens in the inner town were pulled down at Leipzig. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I mend pens remarkably well. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- If I had penned some _Quarterly_ cupidity, He would have gladly borne with its stupidity. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The few words that I have to add to what I have written are soon penned; then I and the unknown friend to whom I write will part for ever. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The benevolent Briggs penned this sentence with the utmost satisfaction. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Whether they or their judges had any part in penning those laws, which they assumed the liberty of interpreting, and glossing upon at their pleasure? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- During his days in prison he busied himself in penning his philosophic, religious, and artistic meditations, as many other illustrious prisoners have done. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Close pent-up guilt, Raise your concealing continents, and ask These dreadful summoners grace! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But this time his feelings were all pent in his heart: I was not worthy to hear them uttered. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His complexion was of a gipsy darkness; his fleshless cheeks had fallen into deep hollows, over which the bone projected like a pent-house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- With his very ears a bright purple shot with crimson, he pent up his indignation, however, and said: 'You'd like to keep her here for a time? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- For several days he wandered aimlessly, nursing his spite and looking for some weak thing on which to vent his pent anger. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I took up the trade just to make a living; if 'tan't right, I calculated to 'pent on 't in time, ye know. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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