[syn: write, compose, pen, indite]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pen \Pen\ (p[e^]n), n. [OE. penne, OF. penne, pene, F. penne,
fr. L. penna.]
1. A feather. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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2. A wing. [Obs.] --Milton.
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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.
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Graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock. --Job
xix. 24.
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4. Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
"Those learned pens." --Fuller.
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5. (Zool.) The internal shell of a squid.
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6. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.) A female swan; -- contrasted
with cob, the male swan. [Prov. Eng.]
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Bow pen. See Bow-pen.
Dotting pen, a pen for drawing dotted lines.
Drawing pen, 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 (Zool.), a pennatula. [Usually written sea-pen.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pen \Pen\, n.
1. [From Pen to shut in.] A small inclosure; as, a pen for
sheep or for pigs.
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My father stole two geese out of a pen. --Shak.
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2. [From penitentiary.] A penitentiary[6]; a prison. [Slang]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pen \Pen\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pennedor 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.
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Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
--Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Penitentiary \Pen`i*ten"tia*ry\, n.; pl. Penitentiaries. [Cf.
F. p['e]nitencier. See Penitent.]
1. One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
[Obs.] --Bacon.
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2. One who does penance. [Obs.] --Hammond.
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3. A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
--Shpiley.
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4. That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.
--Shipley.
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5. (R. C. Ch.)
(a) An office of the papal court which examines cases of
conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc.,
and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief
is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary,
appointed by the pope.
(b) An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested
with power from the bishop to absolve in cases
reserved to him.
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6. A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for
punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they
are generally compelled to labor; a prison; a jail.
Colloquially often shortened to pen.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pen
n 1: a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
2: an enclosure for confining livestock
3: a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
[syn: playpen, pen]
4: a correctional institution for those convicted of major
crimes [syn: penitentiary, pen]
5: female swan
v 1: produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote
four novels" [syn: write, compose, pen, indite]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
298 Moby Thesaurus words for "pen":
POW camp, amanuensis, arable land, arena, artistry, authorcraft,
authorship, automatic writing, barnyard, barton, bastille,
beleaguer, beset, besiege, black hole, blockade, borstal,
borstal institution, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, bridewell,
brig, cacoethes scribendi, cage, calaboose, calligrapher, can,
cattle ranch, cell, chamber, check, chicken farm, chirographer,
cincture, clerk, clink, cloister, close, close in, collective farm,
compass, composition, concentration camp, condemned cell, confine,
constrain, contain, container, cooler, coop, coop in, coop up,
copier, copy, copy out, copyist, cordon, cordon off, cork up,
corral, cotton plantation, coup de plume, court, courtyard,
creative writing, crib, croft, cryptography, curtilage, dairy farm,
death cell, death house, death row, delimited field, demesne,
demesne farm, detain, detention camp, draft, drama-writing,
draw up, dry farm, dude ranch, edit, editorial-writing, encage,
encircle, enclave, enclose, enclosure, encompass, enface, engross,
engrossment, enshrine, essay-writing, expository writing,
facility in writing, factory farm, fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold,
farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, feature-writing,
federal prison, fence, fence in, field, fold, forced-labor camp,
fruit farm, fur farm, gaol, grain farm, grange, graphomania,
graphorrhea, graphospasm, grassland, ground, guardhouse, hacienda,
hedge, hedge in, hell, hem, hem in, hold, hold in custody,
hold in restraint, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, hoosegow,
house in, house of correction, house of detention, immure, impound,
imprison, incarcerate, include, inditement, industrial school,
inhibit, ink spiller, ink spilling, inkslinger, inkslinging,
inscribe, inscription, internment camp, jail, jailhouse,
journalism, keep, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention,
kennel, kibbutz, kolkhoz, labor camp, leaguer, letterer, lettering,
libretto-writing, limbo, list, literary artistry,
literary composition, literary power, literary production,
literary talent, location, lockup, macrography, mains,
make a recension, make out, manor farm, maximum-security prison,
mew, mew up, micrography, minimum-security prison, novel-writing,
orchard, oubliette, pale, paling, park, pasture, pen in, pen up,
pen-and-ink, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement,
pencil, pencil driver, pencil driving, pencraft, penfold,
penitentiary, penman, penner, pinfold, place of confinement,
plantation, playwriting, pocket, pokey, poultry farm, pound,
prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, purgatory, push the pen,
put in writing, quad, quadrangle, quarantine, rail in, ranch,
rancheria, rancho, ready pen, recense, record, recording secretary,
reform school, reformatory, restrain, restrict, revise, rewrite,
rewriting, scribbler, scribe, scrive, scrivener, scrivenery,
scrivening, scroll, seal up, secret writing, secretary, shackle,
sheep farm, short-story writing, shrine, shut in, shut up,
skill with words, spill ink, spoil paper, sponging house, square,
stable, state prison, station, steading, stock farm, stockade,
superscribe, surround, technical writing, the hole, theater, toft,
tollbooth, trace, training school, transcribe, transcriber,
truck farm, type, typewriting, typing, verse-writing, wall in,
word-slinger, wrap, write, write down, write out, writer, writing,
yard, yard up
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
PEN
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