write, compose, pen, indite
(verb) produce a literary work; “She composed a poem”; “He wrote four novels”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
penned
simple past tense and past participle of pen
penned (not comparable)
(obsolete) winged; having plumes
Source: Wiktionary
Penned, a.
1. Winged; having plumes. [Obs.]
2. Written with a pen; composed. "Their penned speech." Shak.
Pen, n. Etym: [OE. penne, OF. penne, pene, F. penne, fr. L. penna.]
1. A feather. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A wing. [Obs.] Milton.
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. Graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock. Job xix. 24.
4. Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. "Those learned pens." Fuller.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The internal shell of a squid.
6. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A female swan. [Prov. Eng.] Bow pen. See Bow-pen.
– Dotting pen, a pen for drawing dotted lines.
– Drawing, or Ruling, pen, a pen for ruling lines having a pair of blades between which the ink is contained.
– Fountain pen, Geometric pen. See under Fountain, and Geometric.
– Music pen, a pen having five points for drawing the five lines of the staff.
– Pen and ink, or pen-and-ink, executed or done with a pen and ink; as, a pen and ink sketch.
– Pen feather. A pin feather. [Obs.] -- Pen name. See under Name.
– Sea pen (Zoöl.), a pennatula. [Usually written sea-pen.]
Pen, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penned; p. pr. & vb. n. Penning.]
Definition: To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet. "A prayer elaborately penned." Milton.
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.]
Definition: 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, n. Etym: [From Pen to shut in.]
Definition: A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs. My father stole two geese out of a pen. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
