Of a color partaking of brown and black; of a dull-brown color; swarthy.Dark; gloomy.n. A familiar name for an old horse or jade: used as a quasi-proper name (like dobbin).To make of a dun or dull-brown color.Especially To cure, as cod, in such a manner as to impart a dun or brown color. See dunfish.To become of a dun color.To make a loud noise; din.To demand payment of a debt from; press or urge for payment or for fulfilment of an obligation of any kind.n. One who duns; an importunate creditor, or an agent employed to collect debts.n. A demand for the payment of a debt, especially a written one; a dunning-letter: as, to send one's debtor a dun.n. A hill; a mound; a fortified eminence.n. A dun-colored natural or artificial fly used in angling: as, the pale-olive dun, made with a body of hair from the polar bear; goose-dun, with a body of gray goose-pinion; blue dun, with a body of pale mole-fur.