subs. (old).—1.  A prison; a penitentiary: see CAGE.

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  2.  (Scots’).—A saucy man with a sharp nose.—[JAMIESON].

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  3.  (colonial).—A three-penny piece.

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  4.  (venery).—The female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE. [Properly of sows.]

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  TO HAVE NO INK IN THE PEN, verb. phr. (old).—See quot.

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  c. 1565.  R. WEVER, Lusty Juventus [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, ii. 92].

            When there is NO MORE INK IN THE PEN,
I will make a shift, as well as other men.
  [Note to ‘pen’ by Hazlitt: ‘an indelicate figure, which occurs in jest-books and other early literature.’]

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  KNIGHT OF THE PEN, subs. phr. (common).—An author or journalist.

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  1864.  Reader, 22 Oct., 505. 1. The best guard against any such spirit, is that the publisher should be a KNIGHT OF THE PEN himself.

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