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dun
  1. adj. of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color; "the dun and dreary prairie"

  2. [also: dunning, dunned, dunnest, dunner]

dun
  1. v. treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, frustrate]

  2. persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"

  3. cure by salting; "dun codfish"

  4. make a dun color

  5. [also: dunning, dunned, dunnest, dunner]

dun
  1. n. horse of a dull brownish gray color

  2. a color varying around light grayish brown; "she wore a dun raincoat" [syn: grayish brown, greyish brown, fawn]

  3. [also: dunning, dunned, dunnest, dunner]

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Usage examples of "dunnest".

Come, thick night,And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,To cry 'Hold, hold!