dung

UK /ˈdʌŋ/ US /ˈdʌŋ/
verb 4noun 2name 2intj 1

Definitions

noun

1

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.

2

A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

verb

1

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.

2

To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.

3

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

1

To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

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