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dung
1. n. Manure; animal excrement.
2. n. A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
3. v. To fertilize with dung.
4. v. (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
5. v. (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
6. v. (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

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You ask me, child, what love is? A star in a pile of dung.

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