Dun /(dŭn)/

1. A mound or small hill.

1. 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.

imp. & p. p. Dunned; p. pr. & vb. n. Dunning

1. To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately.

   Hath she sent so soon to dun?

1. One who duns; a dunner.

   To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun.

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

1. 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.

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