dun Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun horse of a dull brownish grey color
noun a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
fawn; greyish brown; grayish brown.
- she wore dun
verb treat cruelly
bedevil; rag; crucify; frustrate; torment.
- The children tormented the stuttering teacher
verb persistently ask for overdue payment
- The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone
verb cure by salting
- dun codfish
verb make a dun color
adjective satellite of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color
- the dun and dreary prairie

See Dune.

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.

AS. dyne noise, dynian to make a noise, or fr. Icel. dynr, duna, noise, thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as E. din. . See Din.

imperfect & past participle Dunned ; present participle & verbal noun Dunning

To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
Hath she sent so soon to dun? Swift.

One who duns; a dunner.
To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun. Arbuthnot.
An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.

AS. dunn. of Celtic origin; cf. W. dwn, Ir. & Gael. donn.

Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. Pierpont.

Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. Keble.