cony

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Variant of coney¹.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A rabbit; a burrowing rodent quadruped of the genus Lepus, as L. cuniculus of Europe.
2. n. A daman, or species of the family Hyracidæ, order Hyracoidea. So used in the English Bible (Lev. xi. 5; Dent. xiv. 7; Ps. civ. 18), where cony is used to translate the Hebrew shaphen, now identified with the Syrian hyrax or daman (Hyrax syriacus or H. daman), and applied to other species of the genus. The same animal is also called ashkoko, ganam, and wabber. See hyrax and daman.
3. n. The fur of conies or rabbits, once much used in England.
4. n. The pika, calling-hare, or little chief hare, Lagomys princeps, of North America.
5. n. In heraldry, a rabbit used as a bearing.
6. n. In ichthyology, the nigger-fish. A simpleton; a gull; a dupe.
7. n. The West Indian agouti, Dasyprocta cristata, so called by the early English colonists from its fancied resemblance to a rabbit.
8. n. The name of several West Indian serranoid fishes: The guativere, Cephalopholis fulvus.
9. n. Cephalopholis cruentatus, a brown fish with many spots, called in Spanish enjambre.

Wiktionary

1. n. A rabbit, especially the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus)
2. n. The chief hare.
3. n. obsolete A simpleton.
4. n. engraving, engraving An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.
5. n. engraving A local name of the burbot.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
2. n. small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
3. n. any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes