Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. -- Pierpont.
Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day.
--Keble.
{Dun crow} (Zo["o]l.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its
color; -- also called {hoody}, and {hoddy}.
{Dun diver} (Zo["o]l.), the goosander or merganser.
2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
3. Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of
paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
4. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Having the head conspicuously different in color from
the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.
(b) Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or
neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.
{Hooded crow}, a European crow (Corvus cornix); -- called
also {hoody}, {dun crow}, and {royston crow}.
{Hooded gull}, the European black-headed pewit or gull.
{Hooded merganser}. See {Merganser}.
{Hooded seal}, a large North Atlantic seal ({Cystophora
cristata}). The male has a large, inflatible, hoodlike sac
upon the head. Called also {hoodcap}.
{Hooded sheldrake}, the hooded merganser. See {Merganser}.
{Hooded snake}. See {Cobra de capello}, {Asp}, {Haje}, etc.
{Hooded warbler}, a small American warbler ({Sylvania
mitrata}).