PENNED

PEN

write, compose, pen, indite

(verb) produce a literary work; “She composed a poem”; “He wrote four novels”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

penned

simple past tense and past participle of pen

Adjective

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

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



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