any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.

a detachable metal penpoint, filled by dipping or with a quill; nib.

such a penpoint with its penholder.

fountain pen.

ball-point pen.

the pen as the instrument of writing or authorship

The pen is mightier than the sword.

a person's style or quality of writing

He writes with a witty, incisive pen.

a writer

I leave this story to abler pens.

the profession of writing

a master of the pen.

stylus ( def. 3 ) .

Ornithology .

a quill.

a pinfeather.

something resembling or suggesting a feather or quill.

Zoology . an internal, corneous or chitinous, feather-shaped structure in certain cephalopods, as the squid.

to write with or as with a pen; put down in writing

to pen an essay.

to draw with or as with a pen

to pen a sketch.

noun

open space , pencil

verb

free , let go , release , speak

noun

cage , coop , corral , fence , fold , hedge , hutch , jail , penitentiary , prison , sty , wall * , ball point , felt-tip , fountain pen , marker , nib , quill , reed , stick , stylograph , brig , house of correction , keep

verb

box , cage , case , close in , confine , coop , corral , fence in , hedge , hem in , mew , shut in , autograph , commit to paper , compose , draft , draw up , engross , indict , jot down , write , fence , immure , shut up , wall , crib , encage , enclose , enclosure , fold , hutch , imprison , jail , kennel , penitentiary , prison , stockade , yard