Duns is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DUNS in dictionary:

VERB:
• DUN, to make demands for payment of a debt
• make persistent demands on (someone), especially for payment of a debt
NOUN:
• a dull greyish-brown colour.
• a horse with a sandy or sandy-grey coat, black mane, tail, and lower legs, and a dark dorsal stripe.
• a subadult mayfly, which has drab coloration and opaque wings.
• an artificial fishing fly made to resemble a dun.
• a debt collector or an insistent creditor.
• a demand for payment.
• a stone-built fortified settlement in Scotland or Ireland, of a kind built from the late Iron Age to the early Middle Ages. The word is a frequent place-name element in Scotland and Ireland.
ADJECTIVE:
• of a dull greyish-brown colour
• dark or dusky
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make demands upon for payment of a debt

Words related to DUNS

dun4 dunned8 dunning9

Words that contain DUNS

dunsh9 voduns10 dunshed12 dunshes11 tunduns8 dunshing13 turnduns9

How to use DUNS in a sentence

• Having stuffed out his man of straw, he proceeds gravely to argue with him, as if he were as cunning of fence as Duns Scotus.
• Bonaventura, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, and Duns Scotus were the great ornaments of these new orders.
• I was beset by duns, and at length an execution was levied, and the bailiffs put in possession of the very beds we had to sleep on.
• The season begins at the end of March, when a few small fish are rising, and may be caught with the March brown or the blue and olive duns.
• As we pass down stream the pale olive duns are hatching out in fair numbers, and a few fish are already on the move.
• He would have got on finely with Gurth the swineherd and Burgundy the tusk-toothed, and one of his masterly witticisms would have upset Duns Scotus.
• The crown refused to pay its most lawful debts, and duns were flocking to the court.
• These were the Franciscan friars, Roger Bacon and Duns Scotus.
• An actress sees so much of bailiffs, duns, and writs, upon the stage, that she looks on all stamped paper as a farce.
• Like David Copperfield, he had formed a very early acquaintance with debts and duns, and been initiated into the mysteries and sad expedients of shabby poverty.
• Even thus was the place besieged by assiduous and angry duns.
• He called the Catholics by this name, which he made out of the name of a philosopher of the Middle Ages called Duns Scotus.
• They were mostly in the same vein, duns, more or less active.
• There was some difficulty about their admission, and it turned out afterwards that Haydon thought they might be duns, as he was very hard up at the time.
• In prospect of her future wealth, she ate rich food, bought fine garments, and got so deeply into debt that, before the end of the year, she was harried by duns.
• He was at that time compared to Duns Scotus, the subtle Doctor, who, in the weakness of old age, wept because he could not understand the subtleties of his earlier writings.
• There is at Hampton Court a picture, by Spagnoletto, of this same Duns Scotus writing his defence of the Immaculate Conception.
• The fame of Duns Scotus was European, and the Subtle Doctor, as he was called, became the great glory of the Franciscan, as his rival St.
• Marcus explained these impulsive movements on the supposition that Tiffles sought to escape from approaching duns.
• Ambrose, and Duns Scotus, and held stoutly to the conclusion that he had discovered the site of the earthly Paradise.

Similar words containing DUN without suffix s

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