Bow pen. See Bow-pen. -- Dotting pen, a pen for drawing dotted lines.
-- Drawing, 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 (Zoˆl.), a pennatula. [Usually written sea- pen.]
Pen, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Penning (?).] To
write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to
pen a sonnet. "A prayer elaborately penned." Milton.
Pen, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penned (?) or Pent (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n.
Penning.] [OE. pennen, AS. pennan in on-pennan to unfasten, prob. from
the same source as pin, and orig. meaning, to fasten with a peg.See
Pin, n. & v.] 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. "Away
with her, and pen her up." Shak.
Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
Milton.
Pen, n. [From Pen to shut in.] A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep
or for pigs.
My father stole two geese out of a pen.
Shak.
Pe"nal (?), a. [L. poenalis, fr. poena punishment: cf. F. pÈnal. See
Pain.] Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and
offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as: (a) Enacting or
threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. (b)
Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
(c) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal
colony or settlement. "Adamantine chains and penal fire." Milton.
Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and
their punishment. -- Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibited
certain acts, and imposing penalties for committing them. -- Penal
servitude, imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison, in lieu of
transportation. [Great Brit.] -- Penal suit, Penal action (Law), a suit
for penalties.
Pe*nal"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. LL. poenalitas. See Penalty.] The quality or
state of being penal; lability to punishment. Sir T. Browne.
Pe"nal*ize (?), v. t. 1. To make penal.