n. | 1. | A feather. |
| 2. | A wing. |
| 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. |
| 4. | Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. |
| 5. | (Zool.) The internal shell of a squid. |
| 6. | (Zool.) A female swan; - contrasted with cob, the male swan. |
v. t. | 1. | To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet. |
| 1. | 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. | 1. | A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs. |
| 2. | A penitentiary[6]; a prison. |
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