Meaning of dun | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
   countable
2. A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
   countable
3. An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
4. A mound or small hill.
5. A river in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which flows into the River Kennet.
6. a state legislative assembly
   Malaysia
7. ISO 639-3 language code for Dusun Deyah
8. A brownish grey colour.
   uncountable, usually
9. An urgent request or demand of payment.
10. A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
    countable
11. A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
12. To importune (a debtor) for payment: a dunning letter.
13. A river in Wiltshire and Hampshire, England, which flows into the River Test.
14. a state legislative assembly seat
    Malaysia
15. A brownish grey colour
16. One that duns.
17. An alternative name for the River Don in Yorkshire, England.
18. Of a brownish grey colour
19. An importunate demand for payment.
20. A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, alternatively named the Glendun River.
21. A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding
22. An almost neutral brownish gray to dull grayish brown.
23. A settlement and parish in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6659).
24. An urgent request or demand of payment
25. A horse of this color.
26. A surname
27. A mayfly in its first winged stage.
28. (Banking & Finance) (tr) to press or importune (a debtor) for the payment of a debt
    tr
29. (Professions) a person, esp a hired agent, who importunes another for the payment of a debt
30. (Banking & Finance) a demand for payment, esp one in writing
31. (Colours) a brownish-grey colour

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Examples

“"The truth is, Mr. Curl, I cannot write when I am plagued about trifles; and a tiresome dun this morning put to flight every idea that I had in the world." "Mr. Maynard," said the bookseller, in a solemn tone, "it is very wrong to run in debt."”

“Look ye, gentlemen, I have lived with credit in the world, and it grieves my heart never to stir out of my doors but to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun or other.”

“Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.”

“‘Frank's worried about duns,’ she said as the butler went away.”

“Miss Hoppin received a dun for volume 9 1840–1 which Mr. James McConnell, (who now pays the above) is sure was paid.”

“Also, duns are dull and generally sober colored, whilst spinners are more brightly colored and shining and their wings are clear and transparent.”

“We have besides for this Month a little Dun call'd a whirling Dun (though it is not the whirling Dun indeed, which is one of the best Flies we have) and for this the dubbing must be of the bottom fur of a Squirrels tail and the wing of the grey feather of a Drake.”

“Pampedun, or Pandon, was probably a place of residence from the earliest times; its sheltered situation for boats, and proximity to the ancient way over the river, protected perhaps by a dun or camp, on the height above [...] possibly gave origin to the ancient name of the place, Pampedun, from the British pant, a hollow, and dun, a fort or camp, Pant-y-dun.”

“Smaller than the broch was the dun, another type of stone-built 'roundhouse'.”

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