pen

1. 1

   An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

   • There are two steers in the third pen.
2. 2

   A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.slang

   • They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
3. 3

   The bullpen.

   • Two righties are up in the pen.

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   To enclose in a pen.transitive

   • Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.

1. 1

   A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.

   • He took notes with a pen.
   • another novel from the pen of everybody's fave thriller writer.
2. 2

   A writer, or their style.figuratively

   • He has a sharp pen.
3. 3

   Marks of ink left by a pen.colloquial

   • He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
4. 4

   A light pen.

5. 5

   The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

   • A pen is nothing more complex than a decalcified shell, so one mutation of the genes that controlled calcification could be all it took.
6. 6

   A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.archaicdialectalpoetic

   • And eke the pennes, that did his pineons bynd, Were like mayne-yards, with flying canuas lynd, With which whenas him liſt the ayre to beat […]
7. 7

   A wing.poetic

   • but feather'd soon and fledge They summed their pens, and soaring the air sublime
8. 8

   A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)

   • "I'm sure she had more than one EpiPen […]" "But she didn't have one when she got stung or she'd have used it." By all appearances, Mariah died in the woods, […] If she managed to grab the pen found under her leg from her bag or pocket, she
9. 9

   Ellipsis of vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

   • a dab pen; a wax pen

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   To write (an article, a book, etc.).transitive

   • It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.
2. 2

   To write or draw on (a surface) with a pen.transitiveuncommon

   • I penned up the walls with obscenities
   • Beside it, another wooden table with a guestbook penned with names and addresses.

1. 1

   A female swan.

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   Penalty.slang

   • England won 3–1 on pens.

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   Penetration.informal

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   plural of panform-ofhumorousplural

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