dun has definitions from the fields of zoology,color,food
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[ noun ] (zoology) horse of a dull brownish gray color

Used in print

(Edwin Booth, Outlaw Town....)

There were two horses in the barn , a sway-backed dun and Jess_Crouch 's buckskin .

Related terms

saddle_horse

2
[ adjective ] (color) of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color

Examples

"the dun and dreary prairie"

Related terms

chromatic

3
[ verb ] (food) cure by salting

Examples

"dun codfish"

Related terms

cure cooking

4
[ verb ] persistently ask for overdue payment

Examples

"The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"

Related terms

demand

5
[ verb ] treat cruelly

Examples

"The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

6
[ verb ] (color) make a dun color

Related terms

darken

7
[ noun ] (color) a color varying around light grayish brown

Examples

"she wore a dun raincoat"

Related terms

light_brown

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