Pent \Pent\, p. p. or a. [From Pen, v. t.]

Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up.

Here in the body pent. --J. Montgomery.

No pent-up Utica contracts your powers. --J. M. Sewall.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve. --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)