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Coney   /kˈoʊni/   Listen
noun
Coney  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A rabbit. See Cony.
2.
(Zool.) A fish. See Cony.


Cony  n.  (Written also coney)  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus).
(b)
The chief hare. Note: The cony of Scripture is thought to be Hyrax Syriacus, called also daman, and cherogril. See Daman.
2.
A simpleton. (Obs.) "It is a most simple animal; whence are derived our usual phrases of cony and cony catcher."
3.
(Zool.)
(a)
An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.
(b)
A local name of the burbot. (Eng.)





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"Coney" Quotes from Famous Books



... leases expire the combined cities of New York and Brooklyn and Yonkers and Coney Island and Montauk Point will have grown into an enormous, hideous human aggregation of fifty million or ...
— Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers • Arthur Brisbane
... idea fills him with disgust; he longs for the hunting trip he has planned. In sheer desperation he decides to do that which his butler considers equivalent to jumping from the window, in view of his social status—Blinker determines to go to Coney Island. ...
— Writing the Photoplay • J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds
... ride—through rocky dells filled with copsewood, among which jessamine, lilies, and exquisite flowers were peeping up, and the coney, the fawn, and other animals, made Leonillo prick his ears and wistfully seek from his master's eye permission to dash off in pursuit. Or the "oaks of Carmel," with many a dark- leaved evergreen, ...
— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the subject of the present memoir, was son to a clergyman of a Norfolk family, and was born at Coney Weston, on February 11, 1790. He was educated at Eton, and there formed more than one friendship, which not only lasted throughout his life, but extended beyond his own generation. Sport and study flourished alike among such lads ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... and dance at Grody's Grove, just beyond Coney Island, she remained on the boat, lying back in a deck chair, facing a night brilliantly pointed with stars. The machinery of her mind might have ceased with the chugging of the boat. She lay the five hours of her wait, floating in a state of the complete disembodiment ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst


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