pen2 (pen)

[ pen And of hire Ribbes, and of the Pennes of hire Wenges, men maken Bowes fulle stronge, to schote with Arwes and Quarelle. Mandeville , Travels, p. 269. The swans, whose pens as white as ivory. Greene, Madrigal. The proud peacock, overcharged with pens ,. Is fain to sweep the ground with his grown train. B. Jonson, Staple of News, v. 2. On mighty pens uplifted, soars the eagle aloft. Text of Haydn's Creation. 2. A quill, as of a goose or other large bird, cut to a point and split at the nib, used for writing; now, by extension, any instrument (usually of steel, gold, or other metal) of similar form, used for writing by means of a fluid ink. IMG:content-2598.png:[graphic] IMG:content-2599.png:[blocks in formation] 1, quill pen, in which a is the feather, & the body, and the nib; 2, steel pen and penholder, a being the handle, b a ferrule fitted to a and having a clamping socket into which the pen is inserted and there held by pre ure; 3 and 4, fountain-pens: the body of the handle a is a hollow reservoir for ink, b is the pen-holding device, and and d are metal rods pa ing through small holes into the ink reservoir, along which the ink flows by capillary action to keep the pen e supplied. Pens of steel or gold have almost superseded the old quill pens. Pens are also manufactured to some extent of other metallic substances, such as silver, platinum, and aluminium bronze. Gold pens are usually tipped with a native alloy of osmium and iridium. They po e the advantage of being incorrodible by ink, besides having a fine, quill like flexibility, and are exceedingly durable. The glose gloryousliche was wryte, wyth a gylt penne. Piers Plowman (C), xx. 15. He askyd pene and ynke, and wrotte hys sonne. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 51. Roger North wrote to his sister, Mrs. Foley, on March 8, 1700-1: - "You will hardly tell by what you see that I write with a steel pen. It is a device come out of France, of which the original was very good and wrote very well, but this is but a copy ill made." N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 496. not the sword. If the sovereign must needs take a part in the controversy, the pen is the proper weapon to combat error with, Bentham , Introd. to Morals and Legislation, xiii. 17. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. Bulwer , Richelieu, ii. 2. 3. One who uses a pen; a writer; a penman. Those learned pens which report that the Druids did instruct the ancient Britons. fury of a mercile pen. Fuller . I had rather stand in the shock of a basilisco than in the Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici (ed. 1686), ii. 111. 4. Style or quality of writing. The man has a clever pen , it must be owned. Add is on, Tory Foxhunter. 51. A pipe; a conduit. The water that goth thorough the leden penne Is rust-corrupte, unhoolsom. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 177. 6. A female swan, the male being called a cob. Yarrell, British Birds.-7. In Cephalopod a, an internal homogeneous corneous or chitinous structure replacing the internal shell in certain dec acerous cephalopods, such as the typical squids ( Loliginidæ ): also called gladius and calamary: distinguished from the corresponding sepiost or cuttlebone of the cuttles. See cut under calamary. - Electric pen, a kind of autographic pen invented by Edison, consisting of a small perforating apparatus actuated by an electromagnetic motor in connection with a battery, and used in the manner of a lead pencil. On moving it over paper, a series of minute holes is punched in the paper, thus making a stencil that can be used to reproduce the lines, letters, or drawings traced by the pen. Geometrical pen, a drawing-instrument for tracing geometrical curves. A pen or pencil is carried by a revolving arm of adjustable length, the motion of which is controlled by a set of toothed wheels. E. H. Knight.-Lithographic pen. See lithographic. - Pneumatic pen, a pneumatic instrument for producing a stencil for copying. at the end of the pen serves as a valve to release the ink when the point is pre ed on the paper. - To mend a pen, to put a worn quill pen in order by renewing the nib and slit, and trimming the slopes, as with a penknife. (See also bow - pen , drawing -pen, fountain - pen , music - pen .) pen2 (pen), v . t.; pret. and pp. penned , ppr. penning . [ pen2 , n.] To write; compose and commit to paper. IMG:content-2600.png:[blocks in formation] I would fain see all the poets of these times pen such another play as that was. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 4. If thou can'st learn to write by to-Morrow Morning, pen me a Challenge. Congreve, Way of the World, iv. 9. Great men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom. 4368 statutes which impose a new liability for the doing or omitting of an act. Thus, a statute making the officers of a corporation personally liable for its debts if they neglect to file an annual report of its affairs is a penal statute. Penal sum, a sum declared by bond to be forfeited if the condition of the bond is not fulfilled. If the bond is for payment of money, the penal sum is generally fixed at twice the amount. Words worth, London, 1802. which penned turns Bros. 48. Speaks out the poesy which, penned , turns prose. penache (pe-nash'), n. Same as panache. Penæa (pe-ne'a), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1753), after Pierre Pena of Narbonne in France, a botanical writer of about 1570.] A genus of smooth branching undershrubs, type of the order Pe næaceæ, and known by the four-angled style. There are 9 species, all South African. They are densely dish flowers se ile in a leafy spike. They are cultivated clothed with little se ile leaves, and bear yellowish under gla as handsome evergreens.