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▪ I. penned, a.
(pɛnd, poet. ˈpɛnɪd)
[f. pen n.2 + -ed2.]
1. Having ‘pens’, i.e. wing-feathers, or quills; winged; feathered, fledged; quilled, as a porcupine. In Her. Having feathers of a specified tincture. ? Obs.
c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. v. (Parl. Beasts) xvi, Baith otter and aip, and pennit porcupyne. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. xciv. (W. de W.) ff vj/2 The lesarde..is not fetheryd nother pennyd. 1552Huloet, Penned, pennatus, plumatus. Penned or franked, altilis, ut altilis cygnus. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 46 b, S. beareth Sable, a Sphinx d'argent, crined, and penned d'Or.
2. In parasynthetic comb.
a. from pen n.2 1, as hard-penned, tender-penned, weak-penned;
b. from pen n.2 4, as angry-penned, having or using an angry pen, i.e. writing angrily.
1486Bk. St. Albans A viij b, As longe as an hawke stondeth vnder the nombre of vii. barris..she is bot tender pennyd. Ibid., She is not harde pennyde no more than a soore hawke. 1596W. Smith Chloris (1877) 4 My maiden verse..Whose weake pend muse to flie too soone doth proue. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 62. 3/1 Angry-pen'd Maid. 1968B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 79, I started training Kes after I'd had her about a fortnight, when she was hard penned, that means her tail feathers and wing feathers had gone hard at their bases.
▪ II. penned, ppl. a.1|pɛnd|
[f. pen v.1 + -ed1.]
Shut up in a pen; confined, as water, by a weir or lock: see the verb. Also with in, up, etc.
1794W. Vanderstegen Pres. State Thames 29 The practicability of rendering the rapid river Severn a penn'd navigation. 1840Evid. Hull Docks Com. 138 The further your penned-up dock went up the river the better.
▪ III. penned, ppl. a.2|pɛnd|
[f. pen v.2 + -ed1.]
1. Written (with a pen); set down in writing. Also with adv., as well-penned.
1567Drant Horace, Epist. xix. F viij, That they shoulde for very spyte My penned poems teare. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 147 Nor to their pen'd speech render we no grace. 1757Foote Author i. Wks. 1799 I. 132 A well penn'd address.
†2. Done or worked with a pen or quill. Obs.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 15/2 Called the penned stitchinge, because it is done with little quilles or shaftes of a penne. |