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noun

Dung n. The excrement of an animal.

verb

Ding v. t. (past & past part. dinged, obs. dang, or obs. dung; pres. part. dinging)

To dash; to throw violently. (Obs.) "To ding the book a coit's distance from him."

To cause to sound or ring.

To ding (anything) in one's ears, to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.

Dung v. t. (past & past part. dunged; pres. part. dunging)

To manure with dung.

(Calico Print.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; done to remove the superfluous mordant.

Ding v. i.

To strike; to thump; to pound. (Obs.) "Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves."

To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang. "The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes."

To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster. (Low)

Dung v. i. To void excrement.

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"Dung" Quotes from Famous Books

... board is covered with cow-dung, and twelve rushlights are stuck therein. These are sprinkled with ash at the top, to make them light easily, and then set alight, each being named by some one present, and as each dies so will the life of its owner. A ball ...

— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles

... when he noticed his country men packing up their baggage as if intending to raise the siege. Duncan instantly threw his plaid over the head of the man that stood next to him, and jumped over the wall on to a large dung heap that stood immediately below. He was a little stunned, but instantly recovering himself, flew with the fleetness of a deer to Mackenzie's camp, and informed his chief of the state of matters within the stronghold. ...

— History Of The Mackenzies • Alexander Mackenzie

... the foul smells that came in. Rich people like to have their stables and dunghill near their houses. But does it ever occur to them that with many arrangements of this kind it would be safer to keep the windows shut than open? You cannot have the air of the house pure with dung heaps under the windows. These are common all over London. And yet people are surprised that their children, brought up in large "well-aired" nurseries and bed-rooms suffer from children's epidemics. If they studied Nature's laws in the matter ...

— Notes on Nursing - What It Is, and What It Is Not • Florence Nightingale

... "it must be that some of your worship's shrewdness sticks to me; land that, of itself, is barren and dry, will come to yield good fruit if you dung it and till it; what I mean is that your worship's conversation has been the dung that has fallen on the barren soil of my dry wit, and the time I have been in your service and society has been the tillage; and with the help of this I hope to yield fruit in abundance that ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... increased, and together therewith his religious fervor was likewise augmented. When the physicians were preparing some medicines, he said, "Thou, Lord, wilt heal me;" and then began, praying for the pardon of his sins through Christ, and professed that he counted all things but dung for the cross of Christ. He prayed farther, that he might have the presence of God in his departure, saying, "Hitherto have I seen thee darkly, through the glass of thy word: O Lord, grant that I may have the eternal enjoyment of thy countenance, ...

— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie

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