Dumpling

dumpling, n. a kind of thick pudding or ma of paste of dump, in Dumpy.] Dumps, dumps, pi dullne or gloomine of miud ill-humour. [From a Teut root, seen in Su dump in, Ger dump/, gloomy, E Damp.] Dumpy, dump'i, adj short and thick. [From a pio\. form dump a clumsy piece.) Dun, dun, adj of a dark colour, partly brown and black. [A.S. dun—\Y. dum, dusky, Gael, don, brown.] Dun, dun, v t to demand a debt with din or noise to urge for payment pr.p dunn'mg pup dunned'. — one who duns: a demand for payment [A S. dynnan Ice. dynia, to make a noise, to clamour Dunce, duns. n. one slow at learning a stupid person. adjs. Dunc'ish, Dunce'like. [Duns (Scotus-, the leader of the schoolmen, from him called Dunses, who opposed cla ical studies on the revival of learning hence any opposer of learning. Duns Scotus was a native of Duns in Berwickshire, or of Dunston in North umber land, whence his name.]