DUN
\dˈʌn], \dˈʌn], \d_ˈʌ_n]\
Definitions of DUN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color; "the dun and dreary prairie"
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make a dun color
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cure by salting; "dun codfish"
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persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
By Princeton University
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of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color; "the dun and dreary prairie"
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make a dun color
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cure by salting; "dun codfish"
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persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A mound or small hill.
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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.
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To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
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One who duns; a dunner.
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An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
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Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
By Oddity Software
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A mound or small hill.
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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.
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To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
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One who duns; a dunner.
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An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
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Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
By Noah Webster.
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Of a dull brown color.
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A person who presses persistently for payment of a debt; a request for payment.
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To urge, especially for a debt.
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Dunned.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Of a dark color, partly brown and black.
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To demand a debt with din or noise: to urge for payment:-pr.p. dunningp;pa.p. dunned'.
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One who duns: a demand for payment.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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A dun color; an importunate creditor; demand for payment.
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Of a dark color; brownish.
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To press for payment.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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