DUN

A mound or small hill.

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.

To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately. Hath she sent so soon to dun Swift.

One who duns; a dunner. To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun. Arbuthnot.

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

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.