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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
account, annoy, apply pressure, bay, bayard, bedevil, beige, beleaguer, beset, besiege, bill, bill collector, bill of account, bill of lading, blandish, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, buckskin, bug, buttonhole, cajole, calico pony, caliginous, call, call in, check, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, coax, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, collection agent, credit man, creditor, creditress, dapple-gray, debtee, demand payment, dim, drab, dun-brown, dun-drab, dunner, dusk, dusky, ecru, exert pressure, fawn, fawn-colored, fuscous, gloomy, gnaw, gray, grege, grizzle, harass, hazel, importune, invoice, itemized bill, khaki, lurid, manifest, mortgage-holder, mortgagee, murky, nag, nag at, needle, note-holder, nut-brown, obscure, olive-brown, olive-drab, paint, painted pony, pester, piebald, pinto, plague, ply, press, pressure, push, reckoning, roan, score, seal, seal-brown, send a statement, sepia, skewbald, snuff-colored, somber, sorrel, statement, tab, tan, taupe, tawny, tease, toast, toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, urge, walnut, walnut-brown, wheedle, work on, yellowish-brown
Dictionary Results for dun:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
dun
    adj 1: of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun
           and dreary prairie"
    n 1: horse of a dull brownish grey color
    2: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color;
       "she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish brown,
       fawn]
    v 1: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering
         teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify,
         dun, 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

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dun \Dun\, n.
   1. One who duns; a dunner.
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            To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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   2. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his
      debtor a dun.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dun \Dun\, a. [AS. dunn, of Celtic origin; cf. W. dwn, Ir. &
   Gael. donn.]
   Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black;
   of a dull brown color; swarthy.
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         Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up.  -- Pierpont.
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         Chill and dun
         Falls on the moor the brief November day. --Keble.
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   Dun crow (Zool.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its
      color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy.

   Dun diver (Zool.), the goosander or merganser.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dun \Dun\ (d[u^]n), n. [See Dune.]
   A mound or small hill.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dun \Dun\, 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.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dun \Dun\ (d[u^]n), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Dunned (d[u^]nd);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Dunning (d[u^]n"n[i^]ng).] [AS. dyne noise,
   dynian to make a noise, or fr. Icel. dynr, duna, noise,
   thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as E. din. [root]74.
   See Din.]
   To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge
   importunately.
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         Hath she sent so soon to dun?            --Swift.
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dune \Dune\ (d[=u]n), n. [The same word as down: cf. D. duin.
   See Down a bank of sand.]
   A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but
   often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written
   also dun.]
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         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.
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8. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
colorful \colorful\ adj.
   1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.

   Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
         shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
         prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed,
         empurpled]

   Syn: colourful.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
      or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
      flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy,
      jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque]
      [WordNet 1.5]

   3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
      as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
      monochrome.

   Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber,
         brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn,
         reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
         azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor,
         bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue,
         bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful,
         blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
         brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary,
         canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
         chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored,
         earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green,
         dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender,
         lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley,
         multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
         painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
         varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored;
         ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
         orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
         purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine,
         cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
         scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
         rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown,
         snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
         snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel,
         brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color,
         straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine;
         tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion,
         vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish;
         yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae
         bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress
         green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey,
         honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta;
         maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
         sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
         light.]

   Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
        [WordNet 1.5]

9. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
DUN
       Dial Up Networking (Bluetooth, ...)
       

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