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noun (dungs, -)
  1. Manure; animal excrement.
  2. (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
Quotations
  • Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread upon your faces, even the of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.  — Malichi 2:3.
  • 1605: 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... — William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene IV, line 129.
  • 1882: 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. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, page 496.
  • Translations: 
    • Dutch: mest
    • French: fumier
    • German: Dí¼nger , Mist
    • Spanish: excremento , estiércol
    verb 
    1. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
    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 void excrement.
    Translations: 
    • German: dí¼ngen
    Etymology: Middle English from Old English.


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