(in the Bible) another name for the hyrax, esp the Syrian rock hyrax
3. another name for pika
4. archaic
a fool or dupe
Word origin
C13: back formation from conies, from Old French conis, plural of conil, from Latin cunīculus rabbit
Examples of 'conies' in a sentence
conies
Markham in 1631 tells the breeder "to elect the largest and goodliest conies," and enters into minute details.
Charles Darwin The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. 2 (1868). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)