dun

[dun]

Use the adjective dun for something that’s a dusty grey brown color, like a dun cow, or the dun entry rug that used to be white.

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A mound or small hill.

Noun
horse of a dull brownish gray color

Noun
a color varying around light grayish brown; "she wore a dun raincoat"

Verb
make a dun color

Verb
cure by salting; "dun codfish"

Verb
persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"

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Verb
treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

Adjective S.
of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color; "the dun and dreary prairie"


n.
A mound or small hill.

v. t.
To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.

v. t. & i.
To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.

n.
One who duns; a dunner.

n.
An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.

a.
Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.


Dun

Dun , n. [See Dune.] A mound or small hill.

Dun

Dun, v. t. To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.

Dun

Dun , v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Dunned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dunning .] [AS. dyne noise, dynian to make a noise, or fr. Icel. dynr, duna, noise, thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as E. din. . See Din.] To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
Hath she sent so soon to dun?

Dun

Dun, n. 1. One who duns; a dunner.
To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun.
2. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.

Dun

Dun, a. [AS. dunn. of Celtic origin; cf. W. dwn, Ir. & Gael. donn.] Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up.
Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day.
Dun crow (Zo'94l.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Dun diver (Zo'94l.), the goosander or merganser.

A mound or small hill.

To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.

To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.

One who duns; a dunner.

Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.

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