'DUN' definitions:
Definition of 'dun'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie"
noun
Horse of a dull brownish grey color
noun
A color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn]
verb
Treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate]
verb
Persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
verb
Cure by salting; "dun codfish"
verb
Make a dun color
Definition of 'Dun'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. -- Pierpont. [1913 Webster]
- Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- Dun crow (Zool.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy.
- Dun diver (Zool.), the goosander or merganser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dun'
From: GCIDE
- Dun \Dun\ (d[u^]n), n. [See Dune.] A mound or small hill. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dun'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dun'
From: GCIDE
- Dun \Dun\ (d[u^]n), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Dunned (d[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dunning (d[u^]n"n[i^]ng).] [AS. dyne noise, dynian to make a noise, or fr. Icel. dynr, duna, noise, thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as E. din. [root]74. See Din.] To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately. [1913 Webster]
- Hath she sent so soon to dun? --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dun'
From: GCIDE
- Dun \Dun\, n.
- 1. One who duns; a dunner. [1913 Webster]
- To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'dun'
From: GCIDE
- Dune \Dune\ (d[=u]n), 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'dun'
From: GCIDE
- colorful \colorful\ adj.
- 1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
- Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot}; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; {red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled}]
- Syn: colourful. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; {flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; picturesque] [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
- Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; {amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; amethyst; {auburn, reddish-brown}; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; {bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful, blush-colored, rosy}; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; {canary, canary-yellow}; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; {earth-colored, earthlike}; fuscous; {green, greenish, light-green, dark-green}; jade, jade-green; khaki; {lavender, lilac}; mauve; moss green, mosstone; {motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured}; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; {red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet}; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; {snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel, brownish-orange}; stone, stone-gray; {straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured}; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; {vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; {blae bluish-black or gray-blue)}; coral; creamy; {cress green, cresson, watercress}; hazel; {honey, honey-colored}; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]
- Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'dun'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- account,
- annoy,
- apply pressure,
- bay,
- bayard,
- bedevil,
- beige,
- beleaguer,
- beset,
- besiege,
- bill,
- bill collector,
- bill of account,
- bill of lading,
- blandish,
- brown,
- brownish,
- brownish-yellow,
- brunet,
- buckskin,
- bug,
- buttonhole,
- cajole,
- calico pony,
- caliginous,
- call,
- call in,
- check,
- chestnut,
- chocolate,
- cinnamon,
- coax,
- cocoa,
- cocoa-brown,
- coffee,
- coffee-brown,
- collection agent,
- credit man,
- creditor,
- creditress,
- dapple-gray,
- debtee,
- demand payment,
- dim,
- drab,
- dun-brown,
- dun-drab,
- dunner,
- dusk,
- dusky,
- ecru,
- exert pressure,
- fawn,
- fawn-colored,
- fuscous,
- gloomy,
- gnaw,
- gray,
- grege,
- grizzle,
- harass,
- hazel,
- importune,
- invoice,
- itemized bill,
- khaki,
- lurid,
- manifest,
- mortgage-holder,
- mortgagee,
- murky,
- nag,
- nag at,
- needle,
- note-holder,
- nut-brown,
- obscure,
- olive-brown,
- olive-drab,
- paint,
- painted pony,
- pester,
- piebald,
- pinto,
- plague,
- ply,
- press,
- pressure,
- push,
- reckoning,
- roan,
- score,
- seal,
- seal-brown,
- send a statement,
- sepia,
- skewbald,
- snuff-colored,
- somber,
- sorrel,
- statement,
- tab,
- tan,
- taupe,
- tawny,
- tease,
- toast,
- toast-brown,
- umber,
- umber-colored,
- urge,
- walnut,
- walnut-brown,
- wheedle,
- work on,
- yellowish-brown
Acronyms for 'DUN'
From: V.E.R.A.
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