pen
/pɛn/ noun C2- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks. · He took notes with a pen.· another novel from the pen of everybody's fave thriller writer.
- A writer, or their style. · He has a sharp pen.
- Marks of ink left by a pen. · He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
- A light pen.
- The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
- A wing.
- A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
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Maxwell stood by his desk with his hands full of telegrams and memoranda, with a fountain pen over his right ear and his hair hanging in disorderly strings over his forehead.
"Try it yourself, Holmes!" he has retorted, and I am compelled to admit that, having taken my pen in my hand, I do begin to realize that the matter must be presented in such a way as may interest the reader.
Spada, a prudent man, and greatly attached to his only nephew, a young captain of the highest promise, took paper and pen, and made his will.
“Stop a bit,” said the abbé, taking up what he called his pen, and, after dipping it into the ink, he wrote on a piece of prepared linen, with his left hand, the first two or three words of the accusation.
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