Definition of "dung"

dung¹

/ˈdʌŋ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural dungs
1. (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
  Quotations
  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 […]
  c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iv], line 129
  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.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Malachi 2:3
  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.
  1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 496
2. (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
verb
third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged
1. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
  Quotations
  a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground
  1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck.
  1993, Henry Leach, Endure No Makeshifts: Some Naval Recollections
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.
3. (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
  Quotations
  […] 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, […]
  1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick‎, The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68

dung²

/ˈdʌŋ/

verb
1. (obsolete) past participle of ding

dung³

/ˈdʌŋ/

verb
third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged
1. (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

dung⁴

/ˈdʌŋ/

interjection
1. Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”)

Definition of "dung"

dung1

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dung3

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