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.
Graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock.
Job xix. 24.
4. Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. "Those learned
pens." Fuller.