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Adjective
/dən/,
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Of a dull grayish-brown color,
  1. Of a dull grayish-brown color
    • - a dun cow
  2. Dark; dusky
    • - when the dun evening comes
Verb
  1. Make persistent demands on (someone), esp. for payment of a debt
    • - they would very likely start dunning you for payment of your taxes
    • - she received two dunning letters from the bank
Noun
  1. A debt collector or an insistent creditor

  2. A demand for payment

  1. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie"
  2. torment: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
  3. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun"
  4. persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
  5. cure by salting; "dun codfish"
  6. make a dun color
  7. Dun (from the Brythonic Din (modern Welsh Dinas) and Gaelic Dún, 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. ...
  8. Michel Felix Dunal (1789–1856) was a French botanist. He was professor of botany in Montpellier, France. He held the chair of Medical Natural History from 1816 to 1819. The Solanaceous plant genus Dunalia is named after him.
  9. The Dün is a hill chain in northern Thuringia, in Eichsfeld. The highest point is near Vollenborn is at 520 m above sea level.
  10. Dün was a progressive rock band from France. The band was active from 1978-1981, during which they played shows with the likes of Magma, Art Zoyd, Etron Fou Leloublan, and almost became a part of the short-lived Rock in Opposition grouping of bands in Europe. ...
  11. The dun gene is a dilution gene that affects both red and black pigments in the coat color of a horse. ...
  12. (Dunned) Debt is that which is ; usually referencing assets owed, but the term can also cover moral obligations and other interactions not requiring money. In the case of assets, debt is a means of using future purchasing power in the present before a summation has been earned. ...
  13. (DUNS) number: Dun & Bradstreet identification number often used in EDI transmissions.
  14. (DUNS) DUNSRight is the data quality process that ensures that you get the most accurate and complete information available. Learn more about D&B Data Quality.
  15. (1) first stage in the adult mayfly's life cycle; usually of short duration (1 to 24 hours); this is the stage most often imitated by the dry fly; (2) a darkish gray-blue color that is very desirable in some fly tying materials.
  16. A color of horse. Light to medium sand colored with dark skin. Usually has dark points (mane, tail and lower legs.)
  17. To dream that you receive a dun, warns you to look after your affairs and correct all tendency towards neglect of business and love.
  18. Gaelic for fortified place. To archaeologists meaning a small drystone fort, usually dating to the Iron Age or later, and found mainly in the west of Scotland
  19. The subimago (subadult) emergent mayfly form during metamorphosis.
  20. Dial-Up Networking (Microsoft Windows 95/98)
  21. To dun is to urge for payment, to demand a debt in a pressing manner
  22. a horse of any color with charactoristics such as a dorsal stripe, transversal stripe, and striped legs.
  23. is one of several genes that control the saturation or intensity of pigment in the coat. Dun is unique in that it is simple dominant, affects eumelanin and pheomelanin equally, and does not affect the eyes or skin. ...
  24. To repeatedly demand payment of a debt.
  25. Something you are when you finish all you planned to accomplish. That's exactly what I am at this moment, dun. ~ AC