Thesaurus: dun
A mound or small hill.
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Definitions
- n. A mound or small hill.
- 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.
- v. t. & i. To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
- n. One who duns; a dunner.
- n. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
- a. Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
- adj. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color
- n. horse of a dull brownish grey color
- n. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
- v. treat cruelly
- v. persistently ask for overdue payment
- v. cure by salting