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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ding \ding\ di^ng, v. t. imp. p. p. dinged, dang
obs., or dung obs.; p. pr. vb. n. dinging. oe.
dingen, dengen; akin to as. dencgan to knock, icel. dengja to
beat, hammer, sw. daumnga, g. dengeln.
1. to dash; to throw violently. obs.
1913 webster
to ding the book a coit's distance from him.
--milton.
1913 webster
2. to cause to sound or ring.
1913 webster
to ding anything in one's ears, to impress one by noisy
repetition, as if by hammering.
1913 webster
see also:
dinged dang dung dinging to ding anything in one's ears
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dung \dung\ du^ng, n. as. dung; akin to g. dung, d"unger,
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.
1913 webster
see also:
dingy
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dung \dung\, v. t. imp. p. p. dunged; p. pr. vb. n.
dunging.
1. to manure with dung. --dryden.
1913 webster
2. calico print. to immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath
of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the
superfluous mordant.
1913 webster
see also:
dunged dunging
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dung \dung\, v. i.
to void excrement. --swift.
1913 webster
- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
dung
n : fecal matter of animals syn: droppings, muck
v 1: fertilize or dress with dung; "you must dung the land"
2: defecate; used of animals
see also:
droppings muck
- [6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
41 moby thesaurus words for "dung":
bm, ammonia, bowel movement, buffalo chips, ca-ca,
castor-bean meal, commercial fertilizer, compost, coprolite,
coprolith, cow, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, defecation,
dingleberry, dressing, droppings, enrichener, excrement, feces,
feculence, fertilizer, guano, jakes, manure, movement, muck,
night soil, nitrate, nitrogen, ordure, organic fertilizer,
phosphate, sewage, sewerage, shit, stool, superphosphate, turd
- [7] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
dung
1. used as manure luke 13:8; collected outside the city
walls neh. 2:13. of sacrifices, burned outside the camp ex.
29:14; lev. 4:11; 8:17; num. 19:5. to be "cast out as dung," a
figurative expression 1 kings 14:10; 2 kings 9:37; jer. 8:2;
ps. 18:42, meaning to be rejected as unprofitable.
2. used as fuel, a substitute for firewood, which was with
difficulty procured in syria, arabia, and egypt ezek. 4:12-15,
where cows' and camels' dung is used to the present day for this
purpose.
- [8] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
dung. manure. sometimes it is real estate, and at other times personal
property. when collected in a heap, it is personal estate; when spread out
on the land, it becomes incorporated in it, and it is then real estate. vide
manure.
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