Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The West Indian agouti, Dasyprocta cristata, so called by the early English colonists from its fancied resemblance to a rabbit.
- noun The name of several West Indian serranoid fishes: The guativere, Cephalopholis fulvus.
- noun Cephalopholis cruentatus, a brown fish with many spots, called in Spanish enjambre.
- noun A rabbit; a burrowing rodent quadruped of the genus Lepus, as L. cuniculus of Europe.
- noun A daman, or species of the family Hyracidæ, order Hyracoidea.
- noun The fur of conies or rabbits, once much used in England.
- noun The pika, calling-hare, or little chief hare, Lagomys princeps, of North America.
- noun In heraldry, a rabbit used as a bearing.
- noun In ichthyology, the nigger-fish. A simpleton; a gull; a dupe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (
Lepus cuniculus ) - noun The chief hare.
- noun obsolete A simpleton.
- noun engraving, engraving An important edible West Indian fish (
Epinephelus apua ); the hind of Bermuda. - noun engraving A local name of the burbot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rabbit , especially the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
- noun small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
- noun any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Perhaps though the word cony should be reserved for the title of the following "Shoulda Woulda Coulda"!
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Hebrews, rendered "cony" in the English Bible, is a very different animal; that it has a nearer resemblance to the hedgehog, the bear, the mouse, the jerboa, or the marmot, though it is not any of these.
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Obama will lose in 2012 '... and we can begin to undo all of his socialist programs .... cony
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He should be the one that should go to jail for a very long time as far as I am concerned. cony
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Unfortunately, they fail to comprehend the basis for the citizenry's disdain and mistrust. cony
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Eyes of Noctum anagrams to “cony emo fetus” Coincidence?
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Then he let the cony-catcher go and returned home, drunken with chagrin and concern as with wine.
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So the cony-catcher went up to the ass and, loosing it from the halter, gave the beast to his fellow; then he haltered his own head and followed Tom Fool till he knew the other had got clean off with the ass, when he stood still.
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For most part in these kind of disports 'tis not art or skill, but subtlety, cony-catching, knavery, chance and fortune carries all away: 'tis ambulatoria pecunia,
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A deer was said to be broken, a cony unlaced, a pheasant, partridge, or quail winged, a pigeon or a woodcock thighed, a plover minced, a mallard unbraced.
bilby commented on the word cony
"THIRD SERVANT: But when they shall see, sir, his crest up again, and the man in blood, they will out of their burrows, like conies after rain, and revel all with him."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 29, 2009