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Full of dung; filthy; vile; low. Shak.

A yard where dung is collected.

re mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.

A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.

Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.

One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.

Inclined to a dun color. Ray.

The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor. [Local, Eng.]

Deaf; stupid.[Prov. Eng.] My old dame Joan is something dunny, and will scarce know how to manage. Sir W. Scott.

A blow. [Obs.] R. of Glouc.

Beaten; hence, blunted. [Obs.] Fencer's swords . . . having the edge dunted. Fuller.

A porpoise. [Scott.] Dunter goose (Zoöl.) the eider duck. J. Brand.

A uniting; union. Jer. Taylor.

Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

Curved inwards; hooked.

To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively. Bp. Hall.

United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.

Union, as in one body or mass; unity. Jer. Taylor. The coadunation of all the civilized provinces. Coleridge.

Coadunation. [R.] Sir M. Hale.