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Dun

noun

Horse of a dull brownish grey color.

A color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color. Synonyms: fawn, grayish brown, greyish brown.

verb

(past & past part. dunned; pres. part. dunning)

Treat cruelly. Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, frustrate, rag, torment.

Persistently ask for overdue payment.

Cure by salting.

Make a dun color.

adjective

(compar. dunner; superl. dunnest)

Of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color.

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"Dun" Quotes from Famous Books

... smile when I read that word used in that sense: I can assure him that not any abstract consideration of credit, but the abstract idea of a creditor (often putting on a concrete shape, and sometimes the odious concrete of a dun) has for some time past been the animating principle of my labours. Credit therefore, except in the sense of twelve months' credit where now alas! I have only six, is no object of my search: in fact I abhor it: for to be a 'noted' man is the next bad thing to being a 'protested' man. ...

— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey--Vol. 1 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey

... the reason, nothing can be conceived more bare than the dun-coloured rounded hills between the town of Die and the Col de Vassieux, towards which we were making our way. The whole face of the country had the same parched look, and the soil seemed to be composed entirely of small stones, without any signs of moisture even in ...

— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne

... doctors of physic May banish the phthisic. Your cook give you ice-creams in June— If a dun's in the wind, You may leave him behind, And be ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume XIII, No. 369, Saturday, May 9, 1829. • Various

... [Part I], and compare Cowdin's tribute, 'Hopeset and Sunrise', and the closing stanza of Hamlin Garland's: "While heart's blood ebbed at every breath He passed life's head-land bleak and dun, Flew through the western gate of Death And took ...

— Select Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier

... "Dun'no'," replied Buzzby, with an equally blank look of despair; as he stood with his legs apart and his arms hanging down by his side—the very personification of imbecility. "If I wos a fly I'd know wot to do. I'd walk up the side o' that cliff till I got to a dry bit, ...

— The World of Ice • Robert Michael Ballantyne

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