pen (n.)
- amanuensis
- arena
- artistry
- authorship
- barnyard
- barton
- bastille
- blockade
- borstal
- bound
- brig
- cage
- calligrapher
- can
- cell
- chamber
- check
- cincture
- clerk
- clink
- cloister
- close
- compass
- composition
- container
- cooler
- coop
- copier
- copy
- copyist
- cordon
- corral
- court
- courtyard
- crib
- croft
- cryptography
- curtilage
- demesne
- draft
- edit
- enclave
- enclosure
- engrossment
- fallow
- farm
- farmland
- farmplace
- farmstead
- farmyard
- fence
- field
- fold
- gaol
- grange
- graphospasm
- grassland
- ground
- guardhouse
- hacienda
- hedge
- hell
- hem
- hold
- homestead
- hoosegow
- inscription
- jail
- jailhouse
- journalism
- keep
- kennel
- kibbutz
- kolkhoz
- leaguer
- letterer
- lettering
- limbo
- list
- location
- lockup
- mains
- mew
- orchard
- oubliette
- pale
- paling
- park
- pasture
- pen-and-ink
- pencil
- penitentiary
- penman
- pinfold
- plantation
- pokey
- pound
- prison
- purgatory
- quad
- quadrangle
- quarantine
- ranch
- record
- reformatory
- revise
- rewrite
- rewriting
- scribbler
- scribe
- scrivener
- scroll
- secretary
- shackle
- shrine
- square
- stable
- station
- stockade
- surround
- theater
- tollbooth
- trace
- transcriber
- type
- typewriting
- typing
- wrap
- write
- writer
- writing
- yard
pen (v.)
- beleaguer
- beset
- besiege
- blockade
- bound
- cage
- can
- chamber
- check
- clerk
- clink
- cloister
- close
- compass
- confine
- constrain
- contain
- coop
- copy
- corral
- court
- crib
- detain
- draft
- edit
- encircle
- enclose
- encompass
- engross
- enshrine
- farm
- fence
- field
- fold
- gaol
- ground
- hedge
- hell
- hem
- hold
- homestead
- immure
- impound
- imprison
- incarcerate
- include
- inhibit
- inscribe
- jail
- keep
- kennel
- leaguer
- list
- mew
- pale
- park
- pasture
- pencil
- pound
- prison
- quarantine
- ranch
- record
- restrain
- restrict
- revise
- rewrite
- scribe
- scroll
- shackle
- shrine
- square
- stable
- station
- stockade
- superscribe
- surround
- trace
- transcribe
- type
- wrap
- write
pen (adj.)
As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, That that is, is.
Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.
Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.
I 'll make thee glorious by my pen,
And famous by my sword.
I 'll make thee glorious by my pen,
And famous by my sword.
Of Dr. Goldsmith he said, "No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had."
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
This dull product of a scoffer's pen.
Your monument shall be my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read,
And tongues to be your being shall rehearse
When all the breathers of this world are dead;
You still shall live—such virtue hath my pen—
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
The feather, whence the pen
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,
Dropped from an angel's wing.
Hinc quam sic calamus saevior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword.
