Definition of Pen feather. Meaning of Pen feather. Synonyms of Pen feather

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Definition of Pen feather

Pen feather
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 (Zo["o]l.), a pennatula. [Usually written sea-pen.]

Meaning of Pen feather from wikipedia

- flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen/metal-nibbed...
- writing, the word pen itself is derived from the Latin penna, meaning feather. The French word plume can mean feather, quill, or pen. Feathers are among the...
- Sea pens are marine cnidarians belonging to the order Pennatulacea, which are colony-forming benthic filter feeders within the class Octocorallia (subphylum...
- using a pen, but pen calligraphy does not enjoy the same prestige as traditional brush calligraphy. A quill is a pen made from a flight feather of a large...
- non-avian dinosaur species also possessed feathers in some shape or form. The extent to which feathers or feather-like structures were present in dinosaurs...
- A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink, or special pigment ink—suitable for fountain pens—to paper. It...
- more durable and more flexible than a reed pen, and it can also retain ink in the hollow shaft of the feather, known as the calamus, allowing more writing...
- for thinning and pointing quills (cf. penna, Latin for feather) to prepare them for use as dip pens and, later, for repairing or re-pointing the nib. A penknife...
- quill pens cut from feathers and did not retain a sharp point for as long. This led to them being replaced by quills. Nevertheless, a reed pen can make...
- in 1999. The specific epithet (penna) is a Latin word for "feather", "wing" or "pen". Feather bush-pea grows in heathy woodland in the Little Desert National...