PEN

The ancient pen was a stylus of hardened iron, Jer 17:1, sometimes pointed with diamond, for writing on hard substances, like metallic plates; when waxen tablets were used, the stylus had one end made broad and smooth, for erasing errors, 2Ki 21:13. For parchment, cloth, and similar substances, a reed pen was used, or a fine hair pencil, with ink, Jud 5:14 Job 19:24 Isa 8:1 Jer 36:23 3Jo 1:13.

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PEN. → General scriptures concerning Jud 5:14; Ps 45:1; Isa 8:1; Jer 8:8; 3Jo 1:13 → Made of iron Job 19:24; Jer 17:1

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pen. Pen, n. an instrument to write with, coop, fold

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Pen (?), n. [[OE. penne, OF. penne, pene, F. penne, fr. L. penna.]] 1. 1. A feather. Spenser.
2. 2. A wing. Milton.
3. 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. 4. Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. “Those learned pens.” Fuller.
5. 5. (Zoöl.) The internal shell of a squid.
6. 6. [] (Zoöl.) A female swan.
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. — Pen name. See under Name. — Sea pen (Zoöl.), a pennatula. [Usually written sea-pen.]