Dun /(dŭn)/
Dun
n.
- A mound or small hill.
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
v. t. & i.
imp. & p. p. Dunned; p. pr. & vb. n. Dunning
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To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately.
Hath she sent so soon to dun?
Dun
n.
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One who duns; a dunner.
To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun.
- An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
Dun
a.
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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.
Phrases & Compounds
- Dun crow
- the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy.
- Dun diver
- the goosander or merganser.