Dun
Dun (dun) , noun
[See Dune.]
A mound or small hill.
Dun , transitive verb
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 (dun) , verb, transitive and intransitive
[Anglo-Saxon dyne noise, dynian to make a noise, or from Icelandic dynr, duna, noise, thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as English din. r74. See Din.]
To ask or beset (for example, a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately.
Hath she sent so soon to dun?
Dun , noun
1.
One who duns; a dunner.
To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun.
2.
An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
Dun , adjective
[Anglo-Saxon dunn, of Celtic origin; compare Welsh 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.
Chill and dun
Falls on the moor the brief November day.
Collocations (2)
Dun crow (Zoology) , the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy.
Dun diver (Zoology) , the goosander or merganser.