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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



... week nothing occurred. Mortimer De Royster took Roy for occasional pleasure trips, including one jaunt to Coney Island, where the boy from the ranch had his first glimpse of the ocean. The big waves, and the immense expanse of water, astonished him more than anything he had seen ...
— The Boy from the Ranch - Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences • Frank V. Webster
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... "I shoot not ill." "And I," she said, "shoot well, all woodcraft comes handy to me. But this eve I must trust to thy skill for my supper. Go swiftly and come back speedily. Do off thine hauberk, and beat the bushes down in the valley, and bring me some small deer, as roe or hare or coney. And wash thee in the pool below the stepping-stones, as I shall do whiles thou art away, and by then thou comest back, all shall be ready, save the roasting ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris
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... correcting herself. "A week later the body of a suicide was recovered off Coney Island and placed in the Morgue. It was horribly mutilated. But I knew Hugh Guinness. I think I see him yet, lying on that marble slab and his eyes staring up at me. It was no doing of mine that ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 • Various
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... opposite Coney Island, and entering the Narrows. After a short detention at quarantine, we rapidly passed the light-houses and forts and the fleet of shipping, moving and at anchor about the great metropolis, and drew into the dock at ...
— The Flag Replaced on Sumter - A Personal Narrative • William A. Spicer
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... 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 ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV) • Harrison S. Morris
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