Meaning of DUNG
Pronunciation: | | dung
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WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] fecal matter of animals
- [v] defecate, used of an animal
- [v] fertilize or dress with dung; "you must dung the land"
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| Synonyms: | | droppings, muck |
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| See Also: | | BM, buffalo chip, ca-ca, chip, cow chip, cow dung, cow pie, crap, defecate, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, feed, fertilise, fertilize, make, ordure, pigeon droppings, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Dung\, n. [AS. dung; akin to G. dung, d["u]nger, 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.
\Dung\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dunged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dunging}.]
1. To manure with dung. --Dryden.
2. (Calico Print.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath
of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the
superfluous mordant.
\Dung\, v. i.
To void excrement. --Swift.
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Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | (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. |
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Thesaurus Terms |
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| Related Terms: | | ammonia, BM, 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 |
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