Dun

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A mound or small hill.

II. Dun ·noun One who duns; a dunner.

III. Dun ·noun An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.

IV. Dun ·vt & ·vi To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.

V. Dun ·adj Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.

VI. Dun ·vt 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.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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