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 Definitions of dun  [ĘŚn]  

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Definition of 'dun' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.t.) dun
to make repeated demands upon, esp. for the payment of a debt.

2. (n.) dun
a person, esp. a creditor, who duns another.

3.  dun
a demand for payment, esp. a written one.

4. (adj.) dun
dull grayish brown or grayish yellow.

5.  dun
dark; gloomy.

6. (n.) dun
a dun color.

7.  dun
a dun-colored horse with a black mane and tail.

Etymology:  (bef. 1000; ME dun(ne), OE dunn)

Definition of 'dun' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) dun
horse of a dull brownish grey color

2. (adj) dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn
a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
"she wore dun"

3. (verb) dun
of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color
"the dun and dreary prairie"

4. (verb) torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
treat cruelly
"The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

5. (verb) dun
persistently ask for overdue payment
"The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"

6. (verb) dun
cure by salting
"dun codfish"

7. (verb) dun
make a dun color


Definition of 'dun' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) dun
of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy

2. (noun) dun
a mound or small hill

3. (noun) dun
one who duns; a dunner

4. (noun) dun
an urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun

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

6. (verb) dun
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



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