i Register
In some senses, dung is marked as colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
Manure; animal excrement.
Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool[…]
Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
verb
To fertilize with dung.
a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground
She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck.
To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
To release dung: to defecate.
[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
verb
To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.