pen

1. (transitive) To enclose in a pen.Examples: "Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve."transitive

1. (figurative) A writer, or their style.Examples: "He has a sharp pen."; "those learned pens"figuratively

2. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.Examples: "He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt."colloquial

3. (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.Examples: "A pen is nothing more complex than a decalcified shell, so one mutation of the genes that controlled calcification could be all it took."

4. (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.Examples: "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 […]"archaicdialectalpoetic

5. (poetic) A wing.Examples: "but feather'd soon and fledge They summed their pens, and soaring the air sublime"poetic

1. (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).Examples: "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."; "His two most recent films are last year's Greyhound, a Hanks-penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the years immediately following the close of the US Civil War, directed by Paul Greengrass, which is premiering around the world on Netflix tomorrow."; "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."transitive

1. (soccer, slang) Penalty.Examples: "England won 3-1 on pens."slang

1. (computing, informal) Penetration.informal