noun. An almost neutral brownish gray to dull grayish brown.

noun. A horse of this color.

noun. undefined

noun. A mayfly in its earliest adult stage.

noun. An fishing fly that imitates such an insect.

transitive verb. To importune (a debtor) for payment.

noun. One that duns.

noun. An importunate demand for payment.

noun. One who duns; an importunate creditor, or an agent employed to collect debts.

noun. A demand for the payment of a debt, especially a written one; a dunning-letter: as, to send one's debtor a dun.

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.

noun. A hill; a mound; a fortified eminence.

Of a color partaking of brown and black; of a dull-brown color; swarthy.

Dark; gloomy.

noun. A familiar name for an old horse or jade: used as a quasi-proper name (like dobbin).

noun. 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.

verb. To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately.

adjective. Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.

adjective. the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy.

adjective. the goosander or merganser.

transitive verb. 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.

noun. A mound or small hill.

noun. One who duns; a dunner.

noun. An urgent request or demand of payment.

noun. A newly hatched, immature mayfly.

phrase. Eye dialect spelling of don't.

noun. A valley in the Himalayan foothills, e.g. Dehra Dun.

verb. Eye dialect spelling of done: simple past tense and past participle of do.

noun. A brownish grey colour.

adjective. Of a brownish grey colour.

noun. A collector of debts.

verb. To ask or beset a debtor for payment.

verb. To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

verb. treat cruelly

verb. cure by salting

verb. make a dun color

noun. horse of a dull brownish grey color

adjective. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color

noun. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

verb. persistently ask for overdue payment

"(The same letter also warns that Chicago may become *** dun dun dun*** St. Louis with a lake, if The House ceases to exist.)"

Colours  bawn  dun hackle  dun in the mire  durmast oak  

chromatic  

dun letter  dun-bar  dunned  dunning  

cure  darken  demand  light brown  mount  

Donne  Gunn  Hon  Hun  Jun  

ave  chestnut  dappled  grey  milk-white  

account  annoy  apply pressure  ask  bay  

dunned  dunner  dunnest  dunning  

dunned  dunning  duns