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cony-burrow Obs. or arch.
Also -borough, -berry, -bury.
[See burrow n.1 and berry n.3]
a. A rabbit-burrow.[1486Bk. St. Albans F vi, A Berry of Conyis.] 1580Sidney Arcadia iii. (1590) 277 Swearing..that..he would fetch him out of his cunny-berry. c1600Distr. Emperor iii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 208 A crannye as bygg as a conye borrowe. 1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. vii. (R.), Calling..the places made for conies to hide and shroud themselves in cony-veries, or cony-buries, and in other parts of England cony-burrowes. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. xvi. (1653) 110 About the heads of Conney-Berries. c1670Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1840) 158 The place [Old Sarum] looketh so like a long cony-borough.
b. transf.
a1652Brome City Wit v. Wks. 1873 I. 371 Can he not..read Cupids Conybery, the Park of Pleasure, Christian Love-Letters, or some other Pamphlet? 1691Wood Ath. Oxon., P. Martyr, The R. Catholicks..usually stiled them Concubines, and the Lodgings that entertained them and their children Stews and cony-buries. |