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 ]

v. i. To void excrement. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A coarse kind of unbleached cotton fabric; blue denim. [ Written also dungari. ] [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Trousers, overalls or similar work clothes made of blue denim. [ PJC ]

3. pl. Same as blue jeans. [ PJC ]

v. t. To shut up in a dungeon. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. donjoun highest tower of a castle, tower, prison, F. donjon tower or platform in the midst of a castle, turret, or closet on the top of a house, a keep of a castle, LL. domnio, the same word as LL. dominus lord. See Dame, Don, and cf. Dominion, Domain, Demesne, Danger, Donjon. ] A close, dark prison, commonly, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Down with him even into the deep dungeon. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fork for tossing dung. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A heap of dung. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill. 1. Sam. ii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dunghill fowl, a domestic fowl of common breed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dung + (prob.) meer a pool. ] A pit where dung and weeds rot for manure. [ 1913 Webster ]