About The Word Dun

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What's The Definition Of Dun?
[n] horse of a dull brownish gray color
[n] a color varying around light grayish brown; "she wore a dun raincoat" [adj] of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color; "the dun and dreary prairie" [v] make a dun color [v] cure by salting; "dun codfish" [v] persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone" [v] treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" Synonyms | Synonyms for Dun: bedevil | chromatic | crucify | fawn | frustrate | grayish brown | greyish brown | rag | torment Related Terms | Find terms related to Dun: account | annoy | apply pressure | bay | bayard | bedevil | beige | beleaguer | beset | besiege | bill | bill collector | bill of account | bill of lading | blandish | brown | brownish | brownish-yellow | brunet | buckskin | bug | buttonhole | cajole | calico pony | caliginous | call | call in | check | chestnut | chocolate | cinnamon | coax | cocoa | cocoa-brown | coffee | coffee-brown | collection agent | credit man | creditor | creditress | dapple-gray | debtee | demand payment | dim | drab | dun-brown | dun-drab | dunner | dusk | dusky | ecru | exert pressure | fawn | fawn-colored | fuscous | gloomy | gnaw | gray | grege | grizzle | harass | hazel | importune | invoice | itemized bill | khaki | lurid | manifest | mortgagee | mortgage-holder | murky | nag | nag at | needle | note-holder | nut-brown | obscure | olive-brown | olive-drab | paint | painted pony | pester | piebald | pinto | plague | ply | press | pressure | push | reckoning | roan | score | seal | seal-brown | send a statement | sepia | skewbald | snuff-colored | somber | sorrel | statement | tab | tan | taupe | tawny | tease | toast | toast-brown | umber | umber-colored | urge | walnut | walnut-brown | wheedle | work on | yellowish-brown See Also | badger | beleaguer | beset | bug | chevvy | chevy | chivvy | chivy | cure | darken | demand | hamstring | harass | harry | hassle | light brown | madden | molest | mount | oppress | persecute | pester | plague | provoke | riding horse | saddle horse | tease Dun In Webster's Dictionary \Dun\, n. [See {Dune}.]
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}.] [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? --Swift. \Dun\, n. 1. One who duns; a dunner. To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun. --Arbuthnot. 2. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a 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. -- Pierpont. Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. --Keble. {Dun crow} (Zo["o]l.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called {hoody}, and {hoddy}. {Dun diver} (Zo["o]l.), the goosander or merganser. |
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