Dun

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To importune (a debtor) for payment: a dunning letter.
  • n. One that duns.
  • n. An importunate demand for payment.
  • n. An almost neutral brownish gray to dull grayish brown.
  • n. A fishing fly having this color.
  • n. A horse of this color.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A brownish grey colour.
  • adj. Of a brownish grey colour.
  • n. A collector of debts.
  • v. To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
  • v. To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
  • n. A valley in the Himalayan foothills, e.g. Dehra Dun.
  • n. A newly hatched, immature mayfly.
  • v. Eye dialect spelling of done: simple past tense and past participle of do.
  • phrase. Eye dialect spelling of don't.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A mound or small hill.
  • v. 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.
  • v. To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately.
  • n. One who duns; a dunner.
  • n. An urgent request or demand of payment.
  • adj. Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. treat cruelly
  • v. cure by salting
  • v. make a dun color
  • n. horse of a dull brownish grey color
  • adj. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color
  • n. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
  • v. persistently ask for overdue payment
  • Equivalent
    chromatic   
    Verb Form
    dunned    dunning    duns   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cure    darken    mount    saddle horse    riding horse    light brown    demand   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    dunning    dunner    dunned    dunnest   
    Form
    dunned    dunning    dun-bar    dun letter   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dunner    swarthy    drab    ask   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Donne    Gunn    Hon    Hun    Jun    Kun    M1    Nun    Son    Sun   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    roan    sorrel    dappled    chestnut    snow-white    grey    tawny    tungkol    yellowish    piebald