Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.
A fortified Iron Age dwelling comprising a solid dry-stone wall with a door and enclosing an area containing houses or tents There may be have been a timber or thatch roof Typically, they were circular or oval in plan, with an internal diameter of around 60 ft A galleried dun had thicker walls which contained stairs, giving access to the roof, and to rooms and galleries within the walls, much like a broch Some archaeologists use the term semi-broch A promontory dun was built across the neck of a coastal or inland promontory of land Note that several Scottish monuments which are called duns - Dun Carloway, Dun Troddan and Dun Telve - are in fact brochs Some were in use until the mediæval period See Blockhouse, Wheelhouse
Color pattern found frequently among mustangs, usually marked by dorsal stripe, black points, and sometimes zebra stripes on lower legs Basic colors vary from Buckskin (yellow or tan); Grulla (bluish gray); to red
signifies a fortress or fortified place, usually on a hill Originally it meant a heap, mound or hill, and the use of these places as fortresses led to its present meaning
horse of a dull brownish gray color a color varying around light grayish brown; "she wore a dun raincoat" make a dun color cure by salting; "dun codfish" persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone" of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color; "the dun and dreary prairie" Insensible; unfeeling
Dial-up Networking A part of the Windows 95/98 operating system used for initializing communications between modems and establishing new connections to remote dial-up services
Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day
A remote network that can be accessed via a telephone number Also provides modular support for multiple dial-up providers with support for a variety of different protocols
Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror
or Mao Tun orig. Shen Dehong or Shen Yanbing born July 4, 1896, Tongxiang, Zhejiang province, China died March 27, 1981, Beijing Chinese literary critic, author, and editor. A founder of the League of Left-Wing Writers (1930), he served as minister of culture after the communist government was established (1949-64). Many Western critics consider his trilogy of novellas Shi (1930; "Eclipse") to be his masterpiece. English translations of his works include Spring Silkworms and Other Stories (1956) and the novel Rainbow (1992). He is generally considered China's greatest novelist of realism
(Ticaret) An accounts receivable function that uses an escalating series of notices and defined verbiage to document the contacts and attempts made in collecting payment from a customer. Evidence of the attempts are a legal requirement in certain countries if claims are made for unpaid bills
[ 'd&n ] (adjective.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English dunn, from Late Brythonic (cf. Old Welsh dwnn 'dark (red)'), from Proto-Celtic *dusno (cf. Old Irish donn), from Proto-Indo-European *dwos (cf. Old English dosan 'chestnut brown'). More at dusk.