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penned


noun

  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. ball-point 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. Computers. stylus(def 3).
  11. Ornithology.
    1. a quill.
    2. a pinfeather.
  12. something resembling or suggesting a feather or quill.
  13. Zoology. an internal, corneous or chitinous, feather-shaped structure in certain cephalopods, as the squid.

verb (used with object), penned, pen·ning.

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

noun

  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.

verb (used with object), penned or pent, pen·ning.

  1. to confine in or as in a pen.

n acronym for

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

noun

  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 holderSee also ballpoint, fountain pen
  2. the writing end of such an implement; nib
  3. style of writing
  4. the pen
    1. writing as an occupation
    2. the written wordthe pen is mightier than the sword
  5. the long horny internal shell of a squid

verb pens, penning or penned

  1. (tr) to write or compose

noun

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

verb pens, penning, penned or pent

  1. (tr) to enclose or keep in a pen

noun

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

noun

  1. a female swan

n.1“writing implement,” late 13c., from Old French pene “quill pen; feather” (12c.) and directly from Latin penna “a feather, plume,” in plural “a wing,” in Late Latin, “a pen for writing,” from Old Latin petna, pesna, from PIE *pet-na-, suffixed form of root *pet- “to rush; to fly” (see petition (n.)). Latin penna and pinna “a feather, plume;” in plural “a wing;” also “a pinnacle; battlement” (see pin (n.)) are treated as identical in Watkins, etc., but regarded as separate (but confused) Latin words by Tucker and others, who derive pinna from PIE *spei- “sharp point” (cf. spike (n.1)) and see the “feather/wing” sense as secondary. In later French, this word means only “long feather of a bird,” while the equivalent of English plume is used for “writing implement,” the senses of the two words thus are reversed from the situation in English. Pen-and-ink (adj.) is attested from 1670s. Pen name is recorded from mid-19c. n.2“enclosure for animals,” Old English penn, penne, “enclosure, pen, fold,” of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Old English pinn “pin, peg” (see pin (n.)) on notion of a bolted gate or else “structure made of pointed stakes.” v.1late 15c., from pen (n.). Related: Penned; penning. v.2“to enclose in a pen,” c.1200, from Old English *pennian, from the source of pen (n.2). Related: Penned; penning. n.3slang, “prison,” 1884, shortening of penitentiary; earlier use (1845) probably is a figurative extension of pen (n.2). see slip of the lip (pen).

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