black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins
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any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
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small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
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any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
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Coney \Co"ney\ (? or ?), n. 1. (Zo["o]l.) A rabbit. See {Cony}.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A fish. See {Cony}.
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. (Zo["o]l.) The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag.
2. (Zo["o]l.) 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}.
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. (Zo["o]l.) (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. --Diet's Dry Dinner (1599).
3. (Zo["o]l.) (a) An important edible West Indian fish ({Epinephelus apua}); the hind of Bermuda. (b) A local name of the burbot. [Eng.]