Definition of pen:

• To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
• To shut up or confine; write.
• To shut up: to confine in a small inclosure:- pr. p. penning; pa. t. and pa. p. penned or pent.
• To write:- pr. p. penning; pa. t. and pa. p. penned.
• To inclose in a pen; confine.
• To write.
• produce a literary work; " She composed a poem"; " He wrote four novels"
• To shut in a pen; to coop.
• To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite.
• To confine in a pen or in a narrow place; to coop; to incage.
• Pening.
• Almost; nearly; used in words of Latin origin; as, penultimate.
• 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.
• a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
• an enclosure for confining livestock
• female swan
• a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
• a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
• To write; to compose.
• A wing.
• 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.
• Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
• The internal shell of a squid.
• A female swan.
• A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
• A small inclosure; as, a pigpen; a coop; an instrument for writing with ink, etc.
• A small inclosure: a coop.
• An instrument used for writing, formerly of the feather of a bird, but now of steel, etc.
• An inclosure for animals.
• Penned, pent.
• Pointed instrument for writing.
• A small enclosure, as for pigs.
• An instrument for writing with a fluid ink.
• An instrument used for writing.
• An inclosure for cattle or sheep.
• An instr. for writing, formerly almost wholly of quills, now commonly of metal.
• A small enclosure for sheep, fowls, & c.; a coop; a reservoir for water.
• A leaf midrib; the skeletal part of a cuttlefish.
• [ Latin] A leaf midrib( bot.); the skeletal part of a cuttlefish( zool.).
• Penned.

Usage examples for pen

1. I threw down my pen and got out of my chair.  Bolanyo by Opie Percival Read

2. I don't often use a pen now.  The Man with a Shadow by George Manville Fenn

3. She opened her writing- desk and took up a pen.  Jezebel's Daughter by Wilkie Collins

4. Take your pen, and make ready, and write fast.  Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days by Emily Hickey