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Webster 1913 Edition

(dūn)

Noun.

[The same word as

down

: cf. D.

duin

. See

a bank of sand.]

A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.

[Written also

dun

Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the

dunes

or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths.

Motley.

Noun.

A hill. [See Down.]