Dung
[dʌŋ]
Definition
(verb.) defecate; used of animals.
(verb.) fertilize or dress with dung; 'you must dung the land'.
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Definition
(-) of Ding
(n.) The excrement of an animal.
(v. t.) To manure with dung.
(v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
(v. i.) To void excrement.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Excrement, ordure, fæces.
v. a. Manure (with dung).
Checker: Salvatore
Definition
n. the excrement of animals: refuse litter mixed with excrement.—v.t. to manure with dung.—v.i. to void excrement.—ns. Dung′-bee′tle the dor-beetle: (pl.) the scarab鎜id beetles generally; Dung′-fork a fork used for moving stable manure; Dung′hill a heap of dung: any mean situation; Dung′mere a manure-pit.—adj. Dung′y.
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Examples
- The land is manured, either by pasturing the cattle upon it, or by feeding them in the stable, and from thence carrying out their dung to it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I heard the rain on the roof and smelled the hay and, when I went down, the clean smell of dried dung in the stable. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There was a cow-dung in the path, and I must need try my activity by attempting to leap over it. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And the quantity of dung he ate both from me and from thee. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The sides are daubed with a smooth white plaster, and tastefully frescoed aloft and alow with disks of camel-dung placed there to dry. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Then, Rafael recounted me all of an entire novel of dung about cavalry. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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