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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).

To deceive; to cheat; to trick. [Obs.] Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.

A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver. [Obs.] Minsheu.

An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.

A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.

A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

Unlearned; artless; pretty; delicate. [Obs.] Most sweet jests! most incony vulgar wit! Shak.

apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.

A balcony. [Obs.] Pepys.

row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.

ive character is the desire of comprehension. Its watch words are charity and toleration. Conybeare.

A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.

See Cony.

inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare.

A rabbit. See Cony.

that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.