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  1. noun An instrument for writing or drawing with ink or similar fluid, especially:
  2. noun A ballpoint pen.
  3. noun A fountain pen.
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  • This pen was about a hundred feet long and half as wide Around the pen, mounted on insulators, there was bare wire that was obviously electrified In the pen were several small sheds, formerly stock sheds In the pen also were black men, women and children. —  125 - Mystery On Happy Bones
  • Once it's powered up all the functionality in the pen is accessed and triggered by simply writing, drawing or tapping in the FLY Fusion Notebooks. —  OhGizmo!
  • By tapping on the sticker the pen is then able to keep track of which book a particular page came from if you're using more than one. —  OhGizmo!
  • On the GIS side, the pen will be a natural for updating the sheets in order to maintain mapbooks. —  LBSzone RSS News Feed
  • The barrier around the pen is about 5 feet tall, but on the other side is a drop of 9 to 10 feet, and Zhang says he could not climb out. —  CNN.com
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pencil ·  paper ·  knife ·  one ·  box ·  instrument ·  ink ·  brush ·  clothe ·  card ·  sheet ·  weapon

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pen:   pens ·  penning ·  penned
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Etymologies (8)

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  1. Middle English penne, from Old French, from Late Latin penna, from Latin, feather; see pet- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old English penn.
  3. Origin unknown.
  4. Short for penitentiary.

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  1. Formerly also sometimes pend (to which the preterit pent in part belongs) (see pend); from Middle English pennen, also in comp. bi-pennen, from Anglo-Saxon; *pennian, shut up (only in comp. *onpen-nian(not *onpinnian), in the once-occurring pp.onpennad, ‘unpen,’ open); prob. = Low German pennen,pannen, bolt (a door): apparently from a noun, Anglo-Saxon pinn (*penn not found), a pin (of a hasp or lock), = Low German penn a pin, peg (see pin and pen): see, however, pen, n. The verb pen seems to have been more or less confused with the related verb pin and, in the variant pend,with the diff, verb pind, pound, put in pound, impound: see pin, pind, pound.
  2. Formerly also pend (see pen, v.), from Middle English *penn, from Anglo-Saxon penn, a pen, fold; also in comp. hacapenn (haca, hook: see hake): a rare word, apparently from the verb: see pen, v.
  3. from Middle English penne, pene, a feather, a pen for writing, a pipe (plural penncs, feathers, wings), from Old French penne, pene. F. penne = Provencal Pena = Italian penna, a feather, wing, a pen for writing, = Anglo-Saxon pinn, a pin or peg, also a style for writing (in the gloss “mith pinn vel uuritisaex [*writseax], calami”) (rare in both uses), = Dutch pen =Middle Low German penne = Icelandic penni = Swedish penna = Danish pen, a pen, from Late Latin penna, a pen, namely a quill used for writing, a particular use of L. penna, also pinna, a feather, in plural a wing, also a feather on an arrow, hence poet, an arrow, also (in form pinna) a pinnacle, a float or bucket of a water-wheel, etc., also a fin (= Anglo-Saxon; finn E.fin); Middle Latin also a probe, pin; Old Latin pcsna, orig. petna, with formative -na, from √ pat, fly, and thus ult. akin to Greek πτερόν = English feather: see fin and feather.
  4. from pen, n.
 

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