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pen, pointed implement used in writing or drawing to apply ink ink, pigmented fluid used for writing and drawing, or a viscous compound used for printing, both of various colors but most frequently black. The oldest known variety, India ink or China ink, is still used in China and Japan for writing with small brushes instead of
..... Click the link for more information. or a similar colored fluid to any surface, such as paper. Various kinds of pens have been used since ancient times. Reeds that were slit or frayed at the end were used in antiquity; similar pens, usually made of bamboo, are commonly employed in Asia today. In ancient Greece and Rome much writing was done by scratching the wax coating of a tablet with a stylus, or style—a pointed implement whose blunt end was used to make erasures by smoothing the wax. Quills were introduced early in the Middle Ages and continued to be the main writing device until the mid-19th cent. Plucked from live birds (usually geese), the quills were treated with heat and shaped with a penknife, and they required frequent sharpening. Although metal pens were known to the Romans, and a few had been made in Europe in the 18th cent., a cheap, efficient slip-in nib did not come into common use until Josiah Mason improved existing models and began large-scale production in 1828 at Birmingham, England. The fountain pen, which feeds ink to the pen point from a reservoir, was first successfully produced on a commercial scale in the 1880s. The ball-point pen, introduced c.1944, offered several advantages over the fountain pen. Tipped with a ball bearing that rolls a gelatinous instant-drying ink onto paper, the ball-point pen contains a longer-lasting supply of ink than the fountain pen and is less likely to leak. Although soft-tip pens had been used in ancient times (the Egyptians made soft-tip pens from rushes c.4000 B.C., and the Chinese later used hair-tip pens), it was not until the 1950s that felt-tip markers came into fairly common use in the United States. By the 1960s felt-tip markers had been largely replaced by fiber-tip markers. These are made of such materials as nylon and plastic, are available in a wide variety of colors, and are capable of marking any surface, including plastic and glass.

pen¹

the long horny internal shell of a squid

pen²

a dock for servicing submarines, esp one having a bombproof roof

pen³

a female swan

pen [pen]

(engineering)

A small place for confinement, storage, or protection.

A device for writing with ink.

(invertebrate zoology)

The inner horny, feather-shaped, chitnous shell of a squid. Also known as gladius.

pen

1. A synonym for room in a four-sided enclosure constructed of logs. Thus, a one-room log cabin is often called a single-pen cabin, and a dogtrot cabin (consisting of two single-room cabins) is often called a double-pen cabin.

2. An enclosure for animals; for example, a pigpen.

Pen

in graphic art. (1) An implement for drawing with ink or a similar fluid (for example, india ink). A pen is made of metal, feathers, or cane.

(2) The technique of drawing in pen. Such drawings consist of broken lines or hatches.

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No references found	The calves were housed in group pens (6 calves/pen) with pen space per calf of 5. Crude Protein for Diets Fed to Weaned Dairy Calves by T M Hill and H G II Bateman and J M PAS Aldrich and R L Schlotterbeck / Professional Animal Scientist And there seems to be no end in sight to the industry's ongoing need to get pen space in line with cattle numbers. Rough going for cattle producers by Cornett, Steve / Agri Marketing Their longer existence places the branch under strain because older cats can block up pen spaces, which means we are unable to help other needy cats or kittens until the older ones are found new homes. Older cats look for a home by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)	Pembina County Pembina Oil Field Pembroke Pembroke College Pembroke Pines Pembroke Welsh corgi Pembroke, Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, Richard de Clare, 2d earl of Pembroke, William Herbert, 3d earl of Pembroke, William Marshal, 1st earl of Pembrokeshire Pemex Pemiscot County Pemmican pemphigoid Pemphigus pemphigus contageosus Pemzashen Pen pen computing pen drawing Pen Khva Kim Pen Name pen recorder pen space pen tablet Pen Windows Pen, Iurii Pen, Iurii Moiseevich pen-based computer pen-based computing Pen-ch'i Pena, Lazaro Peña, Lazaro Penaeidea penal code Penal Codes of 1845 and 1885 penal colony Penal Laws Penal Settlers penal sum Peñalara, Pico de Penalties, Disciplinary Penalty penalty box penalty clause penalty corner penalty function Penalty Function Method penalty shoot-out	pen lambing pen lambing pen lambing pen lambing pen lambing pen mating pen mating pen mating pen mating pen mating pen name pen name pen name Pen names Pen names pen nib Pen of Chaos pen pal pen pal Pen Pals Pen plotter Pen plotter Pen plotter pen point Pen Pumlumon Arwystli Pen Pumlumon Fawr Pen Pumlumon Llygad-bychan pen recorder Pen register Pen registers pen space Pen spinning Pen Spinning History Committee pen sweeps pen sweeps pen sweeps pen sweeps pen sweeps Pen tablet Pen test Pen to Rib Space pen up pen up pen up pen up pen up pen up pen up Pen User Club in Korea Pen Vee K Pen Windows Pen, Iurii Pen, Iurii Moiseevich Pen, Paint & Pretzels pen-and-ink Pen-and-ink drawing pen-based Pen-based computer Pen-based computing Pen-Based Learning Technologies Pen-ch'i

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The calves were housed in group pens (6 calves/pen) with pen space per calf of 5.

Crude Protein for Diets Fed to Weaned Dairy Calves by T M Hill and H G II Bateman and J M PAS Aldrich and R L Schlotterbeck / Professional Animal Scientist

And there seems to be no end in sight to the industry's ongoing need to get pen space in line with cattle numbers.

Rough going for cattle producers by Cornett, Steve / Agri Marketing

Their longer existence places the branch under strain because older cats can block up pen spaces, which means we are unable to help other needy cats or kittens until the older ones are found new homes.

Older cats look for a home by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)

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