Pemphigus to Penetralia
Pemphigus
(||Pem*phi"gus) n. [Nl., fr. Gr. a bubble.] (Med.) A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized
by the development of blebs upon different part of the body. Quain.
Pen
(Pen) n. [OE. penne, OF. penne, pene, F. penne, fr. L. penna.]
1. A feather. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A wing. [Obs.] Milton.
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.
5. (Zoöl.) The internal shell of a squid.
6. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.) A female swan. [Prov. Eng.]
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 (Zoöl.), a pennatula. [Usually written sea- pen.]
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
(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
(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. Penal
(Pe"nal) a. [L. poenalis, fr. poena punishment: cf. F. pénal. 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.
Penality
(Pe*nal"i*ty) n. [Cf. LL. poenalitas. See Penalty.] The quality or state of being penal; lability
to punishment. Sir T. Browne.
