Dun

(noun.) horse of a dull brownish grey color.

(noun.) a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; 'she wore dun'.

(verb.) make a dun color.

(verb.) cure by salting; 'dun codfish'.

(verb.) persistently ask for overdue payment; 'The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone'.

(adj.) of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; 'the dun and dreary prairie' .

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• And she ses to me 'do it' and I dun it and she giv me a sov'ring and hooked it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Dun Cow--to claim the flitch of bacon? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Dun no, Missis, said the image, with a grin that showed all her teeth. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I ha' dun 't not once, not twice—twenty time! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• My dun-coloured dress did well enough under a palet?t on the stage, but would not suit a waltz or a quadrille. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• They dunnot say that, dun they? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I could see no marks to guide me, but the carpet was of a dun colour, which lends itself very well to examination. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Apart from debts and duns and all such drawbacks, I am not fit even for this employment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Chief among their critics and successors were Duns Scotus (? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Rawdon, with roars of laughter, related a dozen amusing anecdotes of his duns, and Rebecca's adroit treatment of them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• There were no duns in Paris as yet: there were parties every day at Very's or Beauvilliers'; play was plentiful and his luck good. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Wellington had relieved me from many duns, which else had given me vast uneasiness. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• There was a great deal of good in Mrs. Micawber's heart, which had not been dunned out of it in all those many years. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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