dung
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Is dung a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.Examples: "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."; "The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps."uncountable
2. (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.countable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.Examples: "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."transitive
2. (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.transitive
3. (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.Examples: "[…] 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, […]"Synonyms: defecateintransitive
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) past participle of dingform-ofobsoleteparticiplepast
verb (English)
1. (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.colloquial
Definition source: Wiktionary