| • | A feather. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to
   compose; as, to pen a sonnet. | 
											
															| • | 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 small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs. |