1. an instrument for writing or drawing with ink or similar fluid, especially:
2. A ballpoint pen.
3. A fountain pen.
4. A pen point.
5. A penholder and its pen point.
6. A quill.
7. an instrument for writing regarded as a means of expression: "tyranny has no enemy so formidable as the pen” ( William Cobbett).
8. A writer or an author: a hired pen.
9. A style of writing: wrote plays with a witty pen.
10. pinions.
11. the chitinous internal shell of a squid.
12. to write or compose with or as if with a pen.
13. A fenced enclosure for animals.
14. the animals kept in such an enclosure.
15. any of various enclosures, such as a bullpen or playpen, used for a variety of purposes.
16. A repair dock for submarines.
17. to confine in or as if in a pen. see synonyms at enclose.
18. A female swan.
19. informal A penitentiary; a prison.

1. an enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
2. A place to confine a person; a prison cell.
3. the bullpen.
4. to enclose in a pen.
5. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
6. the internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
7. A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
8. to write (an article, a book, etc.).
9. A female swan.
10. penalty

1. A feather.
2. A wing.
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.
4. fig.: A writer, or his style.
5. the internal shell of a squid.
6. A female swan; -- contrasted with
7. A small inclosure.
8. A penitentiary[6]; a prison.
9. to write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose.
10. 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.

1. to shut, inclose, or confine in or as in a pen or other narrow place; hem in; coop up; confine or restrain within very narrow limits: frequently with up.
2. to write; compose and commit to paper.
3. A small inclosure, as for cows, sheep, fowls, etc.; a fold; a sty; a coop.
4. any inclousure resembling a fold or pen for animals.
5. in the fisheries, a movable receptacle on board ship where fish are put to be iced, etc.
6. A small country house in the mountains of jamaica.
7. A feather, especially a large feather, of the wing or tail; a quill.
8. A quill, as of a goose or other large bird, cut to a point and split at the nib, used for writing; now, by extension, any instrument (usually of steel, gold, or other metal) of similar form, used for writing by means of a fluid ink.
9. one who uses a pen; a writer; a penman.
10. style or quality of writing.
11. 5. A pipe; a conduit.
12. A female swan, the male being called a cob. Yarrell, british birds.
13. in Cephalopoda, an internal homogeneous corneous or chitinous structure replacing the internal shell in certain decacerous cephalopods, such as the typical squids (Loliginidæ): also called gladius and calamary: distinguished from the corresponding sepiost or cuttlebone of the cuttles. see cut under calamary.
14. A weir or dam for penning up the water in a stream, canal, or river of any kind, to form a head.
15. A pen or pencil used to record the various degrees of pressure employed in writing. A metal spring, which holds the writing point of metal or graphite, plays against a rubber air-capsule contained in the penholder and connected by rubber tubing to the ordinary recording apparatus.
16. an abbreviation of peninsula.

1. female swan
2. a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
3. a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
4. an enclosure for confining livestock
5. produce a literary work
6. a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes