dun
dun is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 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.
- 3.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 (Zoöl.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Dun diver (Zoöl.), the goosander or merganser.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- account
- accredit
- and
- ash-colored
- ashen
- ashy
- black
- calcareous
- capital
- card
- chiaroscuro
- cinereous
- cineritious
- circular
- cool
- creance
- credit
- creditor
- debenture
- dingy
- drab
- draft
- duplicate
- favillous
- floating
- fly
- give
- gray
- grey
- grisaille
- grizzled
- grizzly
- intrust
- iron-gray
- keep
- kite
- leaden
- lender
- lessor
- letter
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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