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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

... to think sometimes, Aw've been a trifle soft, Aw happen should a' dun't misen? Aw've lang'd to do ...

— Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series - To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour - from his Popular Writings • John Hartley

... on the ground, and I can catch a glimpse of what looks like a dun-colored hide through the tufts of buffalo grass. The yearling was red, you said, Frank? All right. Then I reckon we'll find her there; ...

— The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon - or The Hermit of the Cave • James Carson

... He lit a cigar, wheeled his chair slightly, and sat facing her, at a distance of ten or twelve feet. The open railing of the veranda was half as far away on his right and on Mrs. Haxton's left. Through the narrow rails they both could see the opposite pavement, with its dun-colored throng of natives and the gloomy interiors of several small shops, while the white walls and close- latticed windows of the upper stories seemed to be bleaching visibly in the slanting rays of ...

— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy

... us Guy's pot, but the soup he forgot; Not a meal did his lordship allow, Unless we gnaw'd o'er the blade-bone of the boar, Or the rib of the famous Dun Cow. ...

— Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare • Walter Savage Landor

... can convey the enclosed letter to its address, or discover the person to whom it is directed, you will confer a favour upon the Venetian creditor of a deceased Englishman. This epistle is a dun to his executor, for house-rent. The name of the insolvent defunct is, or was, Porter Valter, according to the account of the plaintiff, which I rather suspect ought to be Walter Porter, according to our mode of collocation. ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

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