Horse of a dull brownish grey color.

Roget 805: credit, trust, tick, score, tally, account.    letter of credit, circular note; duplicate; mortgage, lien, debenture, paper credit, floating capital; draft, lettre de creance [Fr.], securities.    creditor, lender, lessor, mortgagee; dun; usurer.    credit account, line of credit, open line of credit.    credit card.    ... show more

A color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color:
— She wore dun.

synonyms: fawn, grayish brown, greyish brown.

Treat cruelly.

synonyms: bedevil, crucify, frustrate, rag, torment.

Roget 765: request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; apply to, call to, put to; call upon, call for; make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition; make application, make a requisition; ask trouble, ask one for; claim etc. (demand) 741; offer up prayers etc. (worship) 990; whistle for.    beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest^†; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate^†, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.    beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging; mendicate^†, mump^†, cadge, beg one's bread.    dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door.    bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court; seek, bid for etc. (offer) 763; publish the banns.    ... show more

Persistently ask for overdue payment.

Cure by salting.

Make a dun color.

Of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color.

Roget 422: dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421.    faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty etc. (opaque) 426; blear; muggy^†, fuliginous^†; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated^†, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming etc. v.. pale etc. (colorless) 429; confused etc. (invisible) 447.    ... show more

Roget 429: uncolored etc. (color) etc. 428; colorless, achromatic, aplanatic^†; etiolate, etiolated; hueless^†, pale, pallid; palefaced^†, tallow-faced; faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster; discolored etc. v.. light-colored, fair, blond; white etc. 430.    pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.    ... show more

Roget 432: gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan; calcareous, limy, favillous^†; silver, silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous^†, cineritious^†; grizzly, grizzled; slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored; cool.    ... show more