1. any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
2. a detachable metal penpoint, filled by dipping or with a quill; nib.
3. such a penpoint with its penholder.
4. fountain pen.
5. ballpoint pen.
6. the pen as the instrument of writing or authorship: The pen is mightier than the sword.
7. a person's style or quality of writing: He writes with a witty, incisive pen.
8. a writer: I leave this story to abler pens.
9. the profession of writing: a master of the pen.
10. a pen-shaped device having a cartridge filled with a drug or medication: an insulin pen with disposable needles.
11. stylus (def. 3).
12. Ornithology.
• a quill.
• a pinfeather.
13. something resembling or suggesting a feather or quill.
14. an internal, corneous or chitinous, feather-shaped structure in certain cephalopods, as the squid.

15. to write with or as with a pen; put down in writing: to pen an essay.
16. to draw with or as with a pen: to pen a sketch.

1. a small enclosure for domestic animals.
2. animals so enclosed: We have a pen of twenty sheep.
3. an enclosure used for confinement or safekeeping: We have built several pens to hold our harvest of corn.
4. playpen.
5. bull pen.
6. a dock having a protective concrete structure overhead, used to service and repair submarines.

7. to confine in or as in a pen.

1. penitentiary (def. 1).

1. a female swan.

1. variant of pene- before a vowel: penannular.

1. peninsula.

1. International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists.

1. an implement for writing or drawing using ink, formerly consisting of a sharpened and split quill, and now of a metal nib attached to a holder
2. the writing end of such an implement; nib
3. style of writing
4. the pen
• writing as an occupation
• the written word
5. the long horny internal shell of a squid

6. to write or compose

1. an enclosure in which domestic animals are kept
2. any place of confinement
3. a dock for servicing submarines, esp one having a bombproof roof

4. to enclose or keep in a pen

1. US and Canadian informal short for penitentiary (def. 1)

1. a female swan

1. International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists

1. Peninsula

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