dun

noun duns

1. uncountable, usually A brownish grey colour.

   Similar: claybank

adjective

1. not comparable Of a brownish grey colour. Come, thick Night, And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell, That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes, Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, To cry, hold, hold.

noun duns

1. countable A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding. "The truth is, Mr. Curl, I cannot write when I am plagued about trifles; and a tiresome dun this morning put to flight every idea that I had in the world." "Mr. Maynard," said the bookseller, in a solemn tone, "it is very wrong to run in debt."
2. An urgent request or demand of payment. Miss Hoppin received a dun for volume 9 1840–1 which Mr. James McConnell, (who now pays the above) is sure was paid.

verb duns · dunning · dunned

1. transitive To ask or beset a debtor for payment. And hath she sent so soon to dun?
2. transitive To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request. Rich bitches who had to be dunned for their milk bills would pay him right now.

noun duns

1. countable A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago. Also, duns are dull and generally sober colored, whilst spinners are more brightly colored and shining and their wings are clear and transparent.
2. countable A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago. We have besides for this Month a little Dun call'd a whirling Dun (though it is not the whirling Dun indeed, which is one of the best Flies we have) and for this the dubbing must be of the bottom fur of a Squirrels tail and the wing of the grey feather of a Drake.

Similar: subimago

noun duns · doon · dún

1. An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland. Pampedun, or Pandon, was probably a place of residence from the earliest times; its sheltered situation for boats, and proximity to the ancient way over the river, protected perhaps by a dun or camp, on the height above [...] possibly gave origin to the ancient name of the place, Pampedun, from the
2. A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch. Smaller than the broch was the dun, another type of stone-built 'roundhouse'.

verb

1. informal, nonstandard, pronunciation spelling Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do. Now, ya dun it!
2. informal, nonstandard, pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not. Fwhere's he come from, I dun'no'. French or English, I dun'no'. But a gintleman born, I know.

verb duns · dunning · dunned

1. dated, transitive To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance. Dun-fish are of a superior quality for the table, and are cured in such a manner as to give them a dun or brownish color. Fish for dunning are caught early in spring, and sometimes February, at the Isle of Shoals.

noun duns

1. A mound or small hill.

interjection

1. Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music. How would you deal with that power? (Dun, dun, DUN! Insert dramatic music here.)

noun duns

1. alternative Alternative form of dhoon (“Himalayan valley”).

proper noun

1. A river in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which flows into the River Kennet.
2. A river in Wiltshire and Hampshire, England, which flows into the River Test.
3. An alternative name for the River Don in Yorkshire, England.
4. A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, alternatively named the Glendun River.
5. A settlement and parish in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6659).
6. A surname

noun DUNs

1. Malaysia a state legislative assembly
2. Malaysia a state legislative assembly seat