'Coney' definitions:
Definition of 'coney'
(from WordNet)
noun
Black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins [syn: coney, Epinephelus fulvus]
noun
Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes [syn: hyrax, coney, cony, dassie, das]
noun
Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America [syn: pika, mouse hare, rock rabbit, coney, cony]
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Definition of 'Coney'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'coney'
From: GCIDE
- Hind \Hind\ (h[imac]nd), n. [AS. hind; akin to D. hinde, OHG. hinta, G. hinde, hindin, Icel., Sw., & Dan. hind, and perh. to Goth. hin[thorn]an to seize (in comp.), E. hunt, or cf. Gr. kema`s a young deer.]
- 1. (Zool.) The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as Epinephelus apua of Bermuda, and {Epinephelus Drummond-hayi} of Florida; -- called also coney, {John Paw}, spotted hind. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'coney'
From: GCIDE
- Cony \Co"ny\ (? or ?; 277), n. [OE. coning, conig, coni, OF. connin, conin, connil, fr. L. cuniculus a rabbit, cony, prob. an Hispanic word.] [Written also coney.]
- 1. (Zool.) (a) A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit ({Lepus cuniculus}). (b) The chief hare. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The cony of Scripture is thought to be {Hyrax Syriacus}, called also daman, and cherogril. See Daman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A simpleton. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- It is a most simple animal; whence are derived our usual phrases of cony and cony catcher. --Diet's Dry Dinner (1599). [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) (a) An important edible West Indian fish ({Epinephelus apua}); the hind of Bermuda. (b) A local name of the burbot. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'coney'
From: Easton
- Coney (Heb. shaphan; i.e., "the hider"), an animal which inhabits the mountain gorges and the rocky districts of Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land. "The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks" (Prov. 30:26; Ps. 104:18). They are gregarious, and "exceeding wise" (Prov. 30:24), and are described as chewing the cud (Lev. 11:5; Deut. 14:7).
- The animal intended by this name is known among naturalists as the Hyrax Syriacus. It is neither a ruminant nor a rodent, but is regarded as akin to the rhinoceros. When it is said to "chew the cud," the Hebrew word so used does not necessarily imply the possession of a ruminant stomach. "The lawgiver speaks according to appearances; and no one can watch the constant motion of the little creature's jaws, as it sits continually working its teeth, without recognizing the naturalness of the expression" (Tristram, Natural History of the Bible). It is about the size and color of a rabbit, though clumsier in structure, and without a tail. Its feet are not formed for digging, and therefore it has its home not in burrows but in the clefts of the rocks. "Coney" is an obsolete English word for "rabbit."