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Dun"der*pate` (?), n. See Dunderhead.

Dune (?), 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.]

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.

Dun"fish (?), n. Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.

Dung (?), n. [AS. dung; akin to G. dung, dünger, OHG. tunga, Sw. dynga; cf. Icel. dyngja heap, Dan. dynge, MHG. tunc underground dwelling place, orig., covered with dung. Cf. Dingy.] The excrement of an animal. Bacon.

Dung, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dunged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dunging.] 1. To manure with dung. Dryden.

2. (Calico Print.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.

Dung, v. i. To void excrement. Swift.

Dun`ga*ree" (?), n. A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff. [Written also dungari.] [India]

Dun"geon (?), n. [OE. donjoun highest tower of a castle, tower, prison, F. donjon tower or platform in the midst of a castle, turret, or closet on the top of a house, a keep of a castle, LL. domnio, the same word as LL. dominus lord. See Dame, Don, and cf. Dominion, Domain, Demesne, Danger, Donjon.] A close, dark prison, common&?;, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.

Down with him even into the deep dungeon.

Tyndale.

Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon.

Macaulay.

Dun"geon, v. t. To shut up in a dungeon. Bp. Hall.

Dung"fork` (?), n. A fork for tossing dung.

Dung"hill` (?), n. 1. A heap of dung.

2. Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode.

He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill.

1. Sam. ii. 8.

Dunghill fowl, a domestic fowl of common breed.

Dung"meer` (?), n. [Dung + (prob.) meer a pool.] A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure.

Dung"y (?), a. Full of dung; filthy; vile; low. Shak.

Dung"yard` (?), n. A yard where dung is collected.

Dun"ker (?), n. [G. tunken to dip.] One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.

The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but after a few years the members emigrated to the United States.

Seventh-day Dunkers, a sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath.