The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pen \Pen\, n. [OE. penne, OF. penne, pene, F. penne, fr. L. penna.]
A feather. [Obs.]
--Spenser.A wing. [Obs.]
--Milton.-
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. 2 4. Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. ``Those learned pens.''
--Fuller.(Zo["o]l.) The internal shell of a squid.
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[Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.) A female swan. [Prov. Eng.]
Bow pen. See Bow-pen.
Dotting pen, a pen for drawing dotted lines.
Drawing pen, 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 (Zo["o]l.), a pennatula. [Usually written sea-pen.]
WordNet
n. a drawing executed with pen and ink
Usage examples of "pen-and-ink".
Barely a month went by without Dex showing him some of his favorite literature, be it the colorful pages of a superhero comic or the black pen-and-ink drawings in Amazing or Astounding.
Two panels were entirely hidden under pen-and-ink sketches, Gouache landscapes and Audran engravings, relics of better times and vanished luxury.
Jay laid out the general description of Platt, then proffered a pen-and-ink sketch he withdrew from inside his coat.
Anthony had no harder fight with the ladies he was unpolite enough to call demons, than I in resisting the temptation to take another look at that pen-and-ink love making.
Returning to her easel for the first time in months, she tried painting in oils, found her sense of color wanting, switched to pen-and-ink and filled pages of bristol board with tight, hyperrealistic faces.
I happened to be a sophomore at Waycross College, and I actually wore a yellow slicker with riotously witty sayings pen-and-inked on the back, suggesting liberally that sex was the cat's pajamas, and that we all get behind the ole football team.
From the dead face of his mother, Eddi Amsel first did a pen-and-ink drawing, then a red crayon drawing.
Disgusting as it was, I couldn't help laughing at the pen-and-ink sketch which accompanied it--a sketch of the duke, with crowned head, and breast covered with decorations, smiling fatuously from within a rakish bordef, of broken champagne glasses.