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A mound or small hill.

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  1. n. A mound or small hill.
  2. 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.
  3. v. t. & i. To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
  4. n. One who duns; a dunner.
  5. n. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
  6. a. Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
  7. adj. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color
  8. n. horse of a dull brownish grey color
  9. n. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
  10. v. treat cruelly
  11. v. persistently ask for overdue payment
  12. v. cure by salting