PEN
Pen, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penned or Pent (p. pr. & vb. n. Penning.]
Etym: [OE. pennen, AS. pennan in on-pennan to unfasten, prob. from
the same source as pin, and orig. meaning, to fasten with a peg.See
Pin, n. & v.]
Defn: 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. "Away with her, and pen her up." Shak. Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve. Milton.
PEN
Pen, n. Etym: [From Pen to shut in.]
Defn: A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
My father stole two geese out of a pen. Shak.
PENAL
Pe"nal, a. Etym: [L. poenalis, fr. poena punishment: cf. F. pénal.
See Pain.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as: (a) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. (b) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense. (c) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. "Adamantine chains and penal fire." Milton. Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment. — Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibited certain acts, and imposing penalties for committing them. — Penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison, in lieu of transportation. [Great Brit.] — Penal suit, Penal action (Law), a suit for penalties.
PENALITY
Pe*nal"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. LL. poenalitas. See Penalty.]
Defn: The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment.
Sir T. Browne.
PENALIZE
Pe"nal*ize, v. t.
1. To make penal.