coney

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How finely they do feed till they be fat, And then what a sweet meat a coney is!

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  1. noun A rabbit, especially the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
  2. noun The fur of a rabbit.
  3. noun See pika.

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  • So staying open til 4am will actually keep some people from driving to a coney island buzzed or drunk.
  • They usually lie in the open, though often found in graves and in holes in the rocks, from which I have thought that they might be the "coney" mentioned in Scripture Bustards, or wild turkeys, are found at certain periods all over China. —  Life and sport in China Second Edition
  • None of these things did I see, but I found a small coney, at which I fired the shot barrel. —  Six Months at the Cape
  • In the second coming up_, CHRISTMAS proceeds in his song: Hum drum, sauce for a coney No more of your martial music Even for the sake o' the next new stake For there I do mean to use it And now to ye, who in place are to see With roll and farthingale hoopéd I pray you know, though he want his bow By the wings, that this is Cupid He might go back for to cry, What you lack? —  In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)
  • Let those who would prove that there are no mistakes in the Bible produce a cud-chewing coney, and then we will consider the question of inerrancy If the Church is to go on in the way that some are trying to persuade us it ought to go, the sooner it gives up the ghost the better, to save the medical expense At various era-marking periods in the annals of history, the multitudes have been thus disturbed. —  The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
 

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  1. Middle English coni, from Old French conis, pl. of conil, from Latin cunīculus, possibly from cunnus, cunus, female pudenda.
 

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