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Meaning Of Pen

  1. n.
    A feather.
  2. n.
    A wing.
  3. n.
    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.
  4. n.
    Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
  5. n.
    The internal shell of a squid.
  6. n.
    A female swan.
  7. v. t.
    To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
  8. n. & v.
    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.
  9. n.
    A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.



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