penned

4 definitions found

penned - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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  Pen \Pen\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pennedor 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.
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           Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
                                                    --Milton.
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  Penned \Penned\, a.
     1. Winged; having plumes. [Obs.]
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     2. Written with a pen; composed. "Their penned speech."
        --Shak.
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     3. Enclosed in a pen; -- of animals.
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penned - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "penned":
     autograph, autographic, barred, beleaguered, beset, besieged,
     blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, calligraphic, chirographic,
     cloistered, closed-in, confined, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off,
     corralled, cramped, cribbed, cursive, enclosed, engrossed, fenced,
     flowing, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric,
     hedged, hemmed, holograph, holographic, immured, imprisoned,
     in longhand, in shorthand, in writing, incarcerated, inscribed,
     italic, italicized, jailed, leaguered, longhand, manuscript, mewed,
     on paper, paled, penciled, pent-up, printed, quarantined, railed,
     restrained, running, scriptorial, scriptural, shorthand, shut-in,
     stylographic, walled, walled-in, written