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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_114151" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_114151" /> == | ||
<p> (1): | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. t.) 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. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) A mound or small hill. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' a.) Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' n.) One who duns; a dunner. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_37956" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_37956" /> == | ||
Latest revision as of 09:17, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) 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.
(2): ( v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
(3): ( n.) A mound or small hill.
(4): ( n.) An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
(5): ( a.) Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
(6): ( n.) One who duns; a dunner.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(Lat. Dunnus), eleventh bishop of Rochester, A.D. 741.
