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Look up: dun

  1. dun
    [adj] - of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color 2. [n] - a color varying around light grayish brown 3. [n] - horse of a dull brownish gray color 4. [v] - persistently ask for overdue payment 5. [v] - cure by salting 6. [v] - make a dun color
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. DUN
    Dial-Up Networking [Microsoft]
    Found on http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/bab

  3. dun
    In archaeology, a small fortified enclosure. These circular defences have walls up to 5 m/16 ft thick and easily protected doorways. Like Scottish brochs (stone towers), they may incorporate...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  4. Dun
    A simple fortified settlement, usually defended by large drystone ramparts. They are only known in Scotland and Ireland.
    Found on http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/k

  5. Dun
    Gaelic and earlier celtic for fort. Usually applied to small, round late Iron-Age/Roman Period hill top fortifications.
    Found on http://www.trp.dundee.ac.uk/research/glo

  6. Dun
    Dun noun [ See Dune .] A mound or small hill.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/130

  7. Dun
    Dun 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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/131

  8. Dun
    Dun (dŭn) transitive verb & i. [ imperfect & past participle Dunned (dŭnd); present participle & verbal noun Dunning (dŭn'nĭng).] [ Anglo-Saxon dyne noise, dynian to make a noise, or from Icelandic dynr , duna , noise, thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as English
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/131

  9. Dun
    Dun noun 1. One who duns; a dunner. « To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun Arbuthnot. 2. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/131

  10. Dun
    Dun adjective [ Anglo-Saxon dunn , of Celtic origin; confer 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. Dun crow (Z ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/131

  11. dun
    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. ... Of a dark colour; of a colour partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown colour; swarthy. 'Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up.' (Pierpont) 'Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief Novem ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  12. dun
    adjective of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; `the dun and dreary prairie`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. dun
    greyish brown noun a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; `she wore dun`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. dun
    noun horse of a dull brownish grey color
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  15. dun
    verb make a dun color
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  16. dun
    verb persistently ask for overdue payment; `The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  17. Dun
    `Dun` (from the Brythonic `Din` (modern Welsh Dinas) and Gaelic `Dün`, meaning `fort`) is now used both as a generic term for a fort (mainly used to describe a sub-group of hill forts) and also for a specific variety of atlantic roundhouse. In some areas they seem to have been built on any suitable crag or hillock, particularly south of the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth down across the border into Northumberland. Duns, as forts, appear t...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dun

  18. Dun
    • (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. • (n.) A mound or small hill. • (a.) Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy. • (n.) One who duns; a dunner. • (v...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  19. Dun
    Dun is a English boy name. The meaning of the name is `Dark` Du,Duana,Dubh,Dubhain,Duff,Dun,Duwayne From Old English. The name Dun doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Dun seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Dun

  20. dun
    1. horse of a dull brownish gray color
    2. a color varying around light grayish brown

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