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

The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre.

other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift.

The realm or domain of dunces. [Jocose] Carlyle.

Dullness; stupidity.

Like a dunce; duncish. The most dull and duncical commissioner. Fuller.

To make stupid in intellect. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

Somewhat like a dunce. [R.] -- Dun"cish*ness, n. [R.]

he lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum. [West Indies] The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour. B. Edwards.

Thick-headed; stupid.

A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.

See Dunderhead.

formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written also dun.] Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.

Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.

To manure with dung. Dryden.

A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff. [Written also dungari.] [India]

donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons. Down with him even into the deep dungeon. Tyndale. Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. Macaulay.

A fork for tossing dung.

A heap of dung.

A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.