*dun*

n. [ L. aduncitas. See Aduncous. ] Curvature inwards; hookedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aduncus; ad + uncus hooked, hook. ] Curved inwards; hooked. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Zool.) Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bedunged ] To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. coadunatus, p. p. of coadunare to unite. See Adunation. ] (Bot.) United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coadunatio. ] Union, as in one body or mass; unity. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The coadunation of all the civilized provinces. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. co- + pref. ad- + unition. ] Coadunation. [ R. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Dune. ] A mound or small hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Dunned p. pr. & vb. n. Dunning ] [ AS. dyne noise, dynian to make a noise, or fr. Icel. dynr, duna, noise, thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as E. din. √74. See Din. ] To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hath she sent so soon to dun? Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who duns; a dunner. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. Pierpont. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chill and dun
Falls on the moor the brief November day. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dun crow (Zool.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. --
Dun diver (Zool.), the goosander or merganser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named from its color. ] (Zool.) (a) The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre. (b) An American duck; the ruddy duck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Joannes Duns Scotus, a schoolman called the Subtle Doctor, who died in 1308. Originally in the phrase “a Duns man”. See Note below. ] One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The schoolmen were often called, after their great leader Duns Scotus, Dunsmen or Duncemen. In the revival of learning they were violently opposed to classical studies; hence, the name of Dunce was applied with scorn and contempt to an opposer of learning, or to one slow at learning, a dullard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The realm or domain of dunces. [ Jocose ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dullness; stupidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a dunce; duncish. [ 1913 Webster ]

The most dull and duncical commissioner. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Dunce + -fy. ] To make stupid in intellect. [ R. ] Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat like a dunce. [ R. ]

-- Dun"cish*ness, n. [R.] [1913 Webster]

n. [ Cf. Sp. redundar to overflow. ] The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum. [ West Indies ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour. B. Edwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. Eng. also dunderpoll, from dunder, same as thunder. ] A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Thick-headed; stupid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Dunderhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ The same word as down: cf. D. duin. See Down a bank of sand. ] A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [ Written also dun. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. dung; akin to G. dung, dünger, OHG. tunga, Sw. dynga; cf. Icel. dyngja heap, Dan. dynge, MHG. tunc underground dwelling place, orig., covered with dung. Cf. Dingy. ] The excrement of an animal. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dunged p. pr. & vb. n. Dunging. ] 1. To manure with dung. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Calico Print.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To void excrement. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A coarse kind of unbleached cotton fabric; blue denim. [ Written also dungari. ] [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Trousers, overalls or similar work clothes made of blue denim. [ PJC ]

3. pl. Same as blue jeans. [ PJC ]

v. t. To shut up in a dungeon. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. donjoun highest tower of a castle, tower, prison, F. donjon tower or platform in the midst of a castle, turret, or closet on the top of a house, a keep of a castle, LL. domnio, the same word as LL. dominus lord. See Dame, Don, and cf. Dominion, Domain, Demesne, Danger, Donjon. ] A close, dark prison, commonly, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Down with him even into the deep dungeon. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fork for tossing dung. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A heap of dung. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill. 1. Sam. ii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dunghill fowl, a domestic fowl of common breed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dung + (prob.) meer a pool. ] A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of dung; filthy; vile; low. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A yard where dung is collected. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ G. tunken to dip. ] One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists, and they call their denomination the Church of the Brethren. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but after a few years the members emigrated to the United States; they were opposed to military service and taking legal oaths, and practiced trine immersion. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

Seventh-day Dunkers, a sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. the name of a town and a battle fought there, in World War II (1940) when 330, 000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire. Most of the forces were safely evacuated to England.
Syn. -- Dunkirk. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. the name of a town and a battle fought there, in World War II (1940) when 330, 000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire. Most of the forces were safely evacuated to England.
Syn. -- Dunkerque. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. dun hill (E. dune), and linne pool, pond, lake, E. lin. ] (Zool.) A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Dun a mound. ] (Naut.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Dun to ask payment from. ] One employed in soliciting the payment of debts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inclined to a dun color. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

phrase [ Spelled as often pronounced in rapid or slurred speech. ] A slang shortening of I don't know or don't know; as, dunno where I lost my keys; Where'd he go? I dunno.. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. Dun, a. ] (Zool.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor. [ Local, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deaf; stupid.[ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

My old dame Joan is something dunny, and will scarce know how to manage. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dint. ] A blow. [ Obs. ] R. of Glouc. [ 1913 Webster ]