1. A feather. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A wing. [Obs.] Milton.
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. Graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock. Job xix. 24.
4. Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. "Those learned pens." Fuller.
5. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The internal shell of a squid.
6. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A female swan. [Prov. Eng.] Bow pen. See Bow-pen.
— Dotting pen, a pen for drawing dotted lines.
— Drawing, 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 (Zoöl.), a pennatula. [Usually written sea-pen.]
PEN
Pen, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penned; p. pr. & vb. n. Penning.]
Defn: To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet. "A prayer elaborately penned." Milton.