Found 2 hits - Term: sea pen, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pen \pen\ pe^n, n. oe. penne, of. penne, pene, f. penne,
fr. l. penna.
1. a feather. obs. --spenser.
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2. a wing. obs. --milton.
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3. 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.
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graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock. --job
xix. 24.
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4. fig.: a writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
"those learned pens." --fuller.
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5. zool. the internal shell of a squid.
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6. etymol. uncertain. zool. a female swan; -- contrasted
with cob, the male swan. prov. eng.
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bow pen. see bow-pen.
dotting pen, a pen for drawing dotted lines.
drawing pen, or ruling pen, a pen for ruling lines having
a pair of blades between which the ink is contained.
fountain pen, geometric pen. see under fountain, and
geometric.
music pen, a pen having five points for drawing the five
lines of the staff.
pen and ink, or pen-and-ink, executed or done with a pen
and ink; as, a pen and ink sketch.
pen feather. a pin feather. obs.
pen name. see under name.
sea pen zool., a pennatula. usually written sea-pen.
1913 webster
see also:
cob bow pen bow-pen dotting pen drawing pen ruling pen
fountain pen geometric pen fountain geometric music pen
pen and ink pen-and-ink pen feather pen name name
sea pen sea-pen
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sea pen
n : fleshy featherlike warm-water colonies
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