dun : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dun	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for dun
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dun adj of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie" n horse of a dull brownish grey color a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun" Synonym(s): dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn v treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" Synonym(s): torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone" cure by salting; "dun codfish" make a dun color
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dune \Dune\, n. [The same word as down: cf. D. duin. See {Down} a bank of sand.] A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written also {dun}.] Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. --Motley.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dun \Dun\, n. [See {Dune}.] A mound or small hill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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? --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dun \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[94]l.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called {hoody}, and {hoddy}. {Dun diver} (Zo[94]l.), the goosander or merganser.