Thesaurus: pen

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1. n. A feather.
2. n. A wing.
3. n. 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. n. Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
5. n. The internal shell of a squid.
6. n. A female swan.
7. v. t. To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
8. n. & v. 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.
9. n. A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
10. n. a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
11. n. an enclosure for confining livestock
12. n. a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play