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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ding \Ding\ (d[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dinged}, {Dang}
     (Obs.), or {Dung} (Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dinging}.] [OE.
     dingen, dengen; akin to AS. dencgan to knock, Icel. dengja to
     beat, hammer, Sw. d[aum]nga, G. dengeln.]
     1. To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.]
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              To ding the book a coit's distance from him.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. To cause to sound or ring.
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     {To ding (anything) in one's ears}, to impress one by noisy
        repetition, as if by hammering.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dung \Dung\ (d[u^]ng), n. [AS. dung; akin to G. dung, d["u]nger,
     OHG. tunga, Sw. dynga; cf. Icel. dyngja heap, Dan. dynge,
     MHG. tunc underground dwelling place, orig., covered with
     dung. Cf. {Dingy}.]
     The excrement of an animal. --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dung \Dung\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dunged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Dunging}.]
     1. To manure with dung. --Dryden.
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     2. (Calico Print.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath
        of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the
        superfluous mordant.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dung \Dung\, v. i.
     To void excrement. --Swift.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dung
       n : fecal matter of animals [syn: {droppings}, {muck}]
       v 1: fertilize or dress with dung; "you must dung the land"
       2: defecate; used of animals

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "dung":
     BM, ammonia, bowel movement, buffalo chips, ca-ca,
     castor-bean meal, commercial fertilizer, compost, coprolite,
     coprolith, cow, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, defecation,
     dingleberry, dressing, droppings, enrichener, excrement, feces,
     feculence, fertilizer, guano, jakes, manure, movement, muck,
     night soil, nitrate, nitrogen, ordure, organic fertilizer,
     phosphate, sewage, sewerage, shit, stool, superphosphate, turd
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Dung
     (1.) Used as manure (Luke 13:8); collected outside the city
     walls (Neh. 2:13). Of sacrifices, burned outside the camp (Ex.
     29:14; Lev. 4:11; 8:17; Num. 19:5). To be "cast out as dung," a
     figurative expression (1 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 9:37; Jer. 8:2;
     Ps. 18:42), meaning to be rejected as unprofitable.
     
       (2.) Used as fuel, a substitute for firewood, which was with
     difficulty procured in Syria, Arabia, and Egypt (Ezek. 4:12-15),
     where cows' and camels' dung is used to the present day for this
     purpose.
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DUNG. Manure. Sometimes it is real estate, and at other times personal 
  property. When collected in a heap, it is personal estate; when spread out
  on the land, it becomes incorporated in it, and it is then real estate. Vide 
  Manure. 
  
  

















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