n. | 1. | A mound or small hill. | ||||||
v. t. | 1. | 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. | 1. | To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately. | ||||||
n. | 1. | One who duns; a dunner. | ||||||
2. | An urgent request or demand of payment; | |||||||
a. | 1. | Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
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Noun | 1. | dun - horse of a dull brownish gray color |
2. | dun - a color varying around light grayish brown; "she wore a dun raincoat" | |
Verb | 1. | dun - treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" |
2. | dun - persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone" | |
3. | dun - cure by salting; "dun codfish" | |
4. | dun - make a dun color | |
Adj. | 1. | dun - of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color; "the dun and dreary prairie" |