PEN

noun pens

1. An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle. There are two steers in the third pen.
2. slang A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons. They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
3. The bullpen. Two righties are up in the pen.

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verb pens · penning · penned · pent

1. transitive To enclose in a pen. Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.

noun pens

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 A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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.
2. figuratively A writer, or their style. He has a sharp pen.
3. colloquial Marks of ink left by a pen. He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
4. A light pen.
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. archaic, dialectal, poetic A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc. 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. poetic A wing. but feather'd soon and fledge They summed their pens, and soaring the air sublime
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 never discharged it. But Crystal doesn't have these details
9. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).vapor pen a dab pen; a wax pen

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verb pens · penning · penned

1. transitive To write (an article, a book, etc.). Prying open the crate, you discover a carefully wrapped, handwritten copy of one of Matriarch Dilinaga's treatises. It is unlikely she penned it herself, but the flowing brushwork and intricate watercolor illustrations clearly show the hand of a master scribe.
2. transitive, uncommon To write or draw on (a surface) with a pen. I penned up the walls with obscenities

noun pens

1. A female swan.

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noun pens

1. slang Penalty. England won 3-1 on pens.

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noun pens

1. informal Penetration.

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noun

1. humorous, plural, uncountable plural of pan

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noun PENs

1. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of polyethylene naphthalate.polyethylene naphthalate
2. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of penalty (a scorecard score when a skater is penalized out of their skate).penalty

proper noun

1. A diminutive of the female given name Penelope. "Listen, Pen. We are here for the duration. You have to let her in a bit."

proper noun the Pen

1. The 68th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.