dunghill (dunghil)

and a. [Early mod. E. also dunghil, dunghille; nghil, dunghille; Salt is good, but if salt vanysche, in what thing schal it be sauered? Neither in erthe, neither in donghille it is profitable. Wyclif , Luke xiv. Shine not on me, fair Sun, though thy brave Ray With safety can the foulest dunghils ki . J. Beaumont , Psyche, ii. 135, Hence-2. Figuratively - ( a ) A mean or vile abode. (b) Any degraded situation or condition. He... lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill . 1 Sam. ii. 8. (c) A man meanly born: a term of abuse. Out, dunghill! dar'st thou brave a nobleman? Shak., K. John, iv. 3. II. a. Sprung from the dunghill; mean; low; base. Unfit are dunghill knights To serve the town with spear in field. Googe. You must not suffer your thoughts to creep any longer upon this dunghill earth. Bp. Beveridge, Works, II. cxxxvii. Dunghill fowl, a mongrel or cro -bred specimen of the common hen; a barn-yard fowl. dunghill-raker (dungʼhil-raker), n. The common dunghill fowl. [A nonce-word.] The dunghill - raker , spider, hen, the chicken too, to me One of the have taught a le on. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progre , ii. dung-hook (dung'huk), n. An agricultural implement for spreading manure. dung-hunter (dung'hunter), n. species of jaeger or skua-gull, of the genus Ster corarius. The birds are so called from their supposed habits; but in reality they hara other gulls and terns to make them disgorge their food, not to feed upon their excrement. Also called dung - bird and dirty -allen.