convulsionary 
to a supposed miraculous influence emanating 
from the tomb of a pious Jansenist, Fra^ois de 
Paris, in the cemetery of St. Medard near Pans, 
who died in 1727. They continued to exist for 
more than fifty years. 
convulsionist (kon-vtil' shon-ist), n. [= F. eon- 
vulsionniste (in sense 1) ; as convulsion + -m.] 
1. A convulsionary. 
cook 
I must einvii-eatcli ; I must shift. 
Snak., M. vt . 
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COOCCUpant (ko-ok'u-pant), (t. 
if w., i. :i. p (m t.} Jointly occupying. 
II. trans. To trick; impose upon; cheat. 
I'll conn-catch you for this. 
Middlelon, Blurt, Master-Constable, iv. 3. 
But, wenches, let's be wise, and make rooks of them that 
[< CO- 1 + OCCU- 
The republic of Hayti, coiiccupant with San Domingo of 
__ie island, was disposed to look askance at the intrusion 
upon its shores of so powerful a neighbor. 

' 
the ranting ./i... v~ ~- WTTT oi 
of the awakened. The Century, XXIII. 216. 
2. In geol., a catastrophist. 
There were the conoulsionists, or believers in the para- 
mount efficacy of subterranean movement. 
Geikie, Geol. Sketches, 
convulsive (kon-vul'siv), a. 
Sp. Pg. It. conmlsiro, < L. as 
convuUus, pp. of connellere, convulse: see con- 
vulse and -ive.] 1. Producing or attended by 
convulsion; tending to convulse: as, "convul- 
sive rage," Dryden, Aurengzebe. 
In Silence weep ; 
I warrant are now setting pursenets to conycatch us. 
Dekker and Webster, Westward Ho, v. 1. 
conycatchert, coneycatchert, [< cny, co- 
ney, 7, + catcher.] One who catches or takes 
in dupes; a cheat; a sharper; a swindler. 
We are smoked for being coney -catchers. 
COOChee (ko'che'), . t. [Imitative; cf. coo, 
c/Htcfcl, cluck, etc.] To call (poultry) by an imi- 
tation of clucking. [Rare.] 
The voice of Mrs. General Likens coocheeing the poultry 
to their morning meal, ordering the servants in their du- 
ties. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 92. 
Massinger, Renegade, iv. 1. cOOCh-graSSt, 
A chance came over him [Conrad Beisscl, founder of the 
order of the Solitary) that brought him into contact with 
the ranting convulsionist Frederick Epck . .juuUjthers 
mra- conycatchingt.coneycatchingt,". anda. [Ver- coper Tko'er), n. A dov. 
\>afn.ofc<mycatch,coneycatch,v.-\ I. n. Cheat- plural, the Oenntores, the 
ii. 5. ;. awimlliTur. m Macgilhvray's system : 
[= F. convulsif = 
if *convulsicus, < 
ing; swindling. 
plain coney-catching? 
II. a. Cheating. 
O coney-catching Cupid. 
,-, - B. Jonson, Case is Altered, iv. 4. 
And thy convulsive Sorrows inward keep. 
Prior, Carmen Seculare, st. 8. cony-fish COney-fish (ko m-fish), n. A local 
2. Of the nature of or characterized by convul- 
sions or spasms. 
See couch-grass. 
dove or pigeon ; in the 
second order of birds 
Macgillivray's system : so named from their 
Master R. G., would it not make you blush if you sold characteristic note. See Columbas. 
Orlando Furioso to the queenes players for twenty nobles, COOey, . and V. bee cooie. 
and, when they were in the country, sold the same play coof (kuf), . [Also written cm) ; origin un- 
to Lord Admiral's men, for as much more ? Wasnotahis kno^^.] A lout ; a coward. [Scotch.] 
Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord, 
Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' that ; 
Tho' hundreds worship at his word, 
He's but a coof for a' that. 
Burns, For A' That. 
Defence of Coneycatchmg (1592). 
IncertaincasescojuNrfsttieattacksarecongenital. Quam. 
English name^of the burbot. Jt gig" tohj*. 
)mnka as a conv or ral)1)it does on laml Day 
COney-gartht, " [Late ME. CO- 
cooie, COOey (ko'i), . [Imitative.] The cry 
or call of the Australian aborigines. 
In Australia, as we have seen, loud cooeys are made on 
coming within a mile of an encampment an act which, 
convulsively ' (kon-vul'siv-li), . In aeon- nyngerthe (written connynaj ^ as if 'con y ^S^^^^^^^^^^A 
vulsive manner; with convulsion; spasmodi- 
cally. 
As the blood is draining from him [the dying gladiator], 
he pants and looks wild, and the chest heaves convulsively. 
F. Warner, Physical Expression, p. 303. 
cony, coney (ko'ni or kun'i), n. ; pi. conies, co- 
neys (ko'niz or kun'iz). [Early mod. E. and 
later also come, conny, conney, coiinie, cnnny, cun- 
nie, < ME. cony, conny, conyng, conninge, conig, 
earth,' in Prompt. Parv., p. 90); < cony, coniy, 
+ garth*.] An inclosure for conies ; a cony- 
approach would render doubtful. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 346. 
To cry or call like the 
connigrey, and even cunnigreene; 
connyngcre, < OF. conniniere, coninyere (adapted 
(ko'in-nu'), n. [Australian.] A 
ning, conyng, mod. cunning 2 as a fish-name, and 
in cunningaire (see conyger) and the surname 
Cunningham, also spelled Conyngham: see be- 
low), = MD. cunin, later konijn, D. konijn = Sw. 
Dan. kanin = MLG. katrin = MG. kanyn (> G. ., f 
kanin, now dim. kaninchen; MHG. fcuuictin, later equiv. cony-garth, q. v.] A rabbit-waiTen ; 
kuniglin, kiinlin, kiingele, kiinele, konigle, koni- 
gtein, etc., after L.), < OF. conin, connin, con- 
gnin, coning, connin, by-form of conil, connil, co- 
gnil, counil, = Pr. conil = Sp. eonejo = Pg. coelho 
= It. coniglio = Gr. Kwintof, itbvaOas, < L. cimi- 
culus,& rabbit; said to be of Hispanic origin. 
The historical pron. is kun'i; ko'ni is recent conyngt, n. An obsolete form of cony. 
and follows the spelling cony. The word is very of the Rose. 
frequent in early mod. E. (and in OF., etc.) in conyngert, See conyger. 
various deflected or allusive senses (see def. 6). cony-wool, COney-WOpl (ko'ni-wul), n. The 
The name of the cony enters into a number of 
local names and surnames, as Coney, Coneybeare, 
the rabbit ; cf. L. cunicularius, a miner: see CM- 8ea8oni ng. 
nicular), < eunlculus, > OF. conin, connin, etc., > c ooja (ko'jii), n. A porous earthenware water- 
ME. conyng, comg, cony, etc., a rabbit : see cony, vessel witli a wide mouth, used in India, espe- 
The form conyger, conynger, with g repr. y, orig. cially in Bombay. 
i, seems to have been partly confused with the cook 1 (kuk),>. [< ME. coken (cf. AS. gecocnian, 
cook) = D. koken = OHG. cochon, chochon, choh- 
hon, MHG. chochen, kochen, G. kochen = Dan. 
koge = Sw. koka, boil, cook (the verb in Teut. 
being in part from the noun), = F. cuire = Pr. 
cozer, coire = Sp. cocer (cf. Pg. eoeinhar) = It. 
cuocere, cook, < L. coquere, cook (bake, boil, 
roast, etc. : see coct, concoct), = Gr. iren-Teiv, cook 
(see peptic), = Skt. V pach, cook : see cook 1 , 
.] I. trans. I. To make fit for eating by the 
action of heat, as in boiling, stewing, j-oasting, 
baking, etc. ; especially, to prepare in an ap- 
cony-warren 
With them that perett robbe cmyyeryi. 
Lydgate, Minor Poems, p. 174. 
Warens and conygers and parkis palyydde occupie moche 
grounde nat inhabitaunt, leporaria sive lagotrophia. 
Herman, Vulgaria (ed. Way). 
Bom. 
facture of hats. 
Coningsby, Conington, Conyngham,~Cunningham, Conyza (ko-ni'za), n. [NL.,< L. conyza,< Gr. 
Conythorp, etc.] 1 . A rabbit ; a burrowing ro- navv^a, fleabane.] A genus of composite plants 
of warm regions. The plants known as flea- 
dent quadruped of the genus Lepus, as L. cuni- 
cnlus of Europe. 
Conmnez in cretoyne [a sweet sauce] colourede f ulle faint. 
Morte Artlmre (E. E. T. S.), 1. 197. 
Ah sir, be good to hir, she is but a gristle ; 
Ah sweete lambe and coney ! 
Udall, Holster Doister, i. 4. 
2. A daman, or species of the family Hyracida;, 
order Hyracoidea. So used in the English Bible (Lev. 
xi. 5 ; Deut. xiv. 7 ; Ps. civ. 18), where cony is used to 
translate the Hebrew shaphen, now identified with the 
Syrian hyrax or daman (Hyrax syriacus or H. daman), and 
applied to other species of the genus. The same animal is 
also called ashkoko, ganam, and tmbber. See hyrax and 
daman. 
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their 
houses in the rocks. Prov. xxx. 26. 
3. The fur of conies or rabbits, once much 
used in England. 4. The pika, calling-hare, 
or little chief hare, iMgomys princeps, of North 
America. 
The miners and hunters in the West know these oddities 
as conies and "starved rats." Stand. Nat. Hist., V. 81. 
5. In her., a rabbit used as a bearing. 6. In 
ichth., the nigger-fish. 7f. A simpleton ; a 
gull ; a dupe. 
The system of cheating, or, as it is now called, swindling, 
was carried to a great length early in the seventeenth 
century ; . . . a collective society of sharpers was called a 
warren, and their dupes rabbit-suckers (that is, young rab- 
>iits) or conies. Nares. 
fur of rabbits, extensively used in the manu- petizing way, as meats or vegetables, by vari- 
*--* * v -~ t - ous combinations of materials and flavoring. 
Most of the meats are cooked with clarified butter. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 180. 
Hence 2. In general, to subject to the action 
of heat. 3. To dress up, alter, color, concoct, 
or falsely invent (a narrative, statement, ex- 
cuse, etc.), for some special purpose, as that of 
making a more favorable impression than the 
facts of the case warrant; falsify: often fol- 
lowed by up : as, to cook up a story. 
bane, which were formerly referred to it, are 
now placed in the genus Inula. 
COO (ko), v. [Imitative of the sound, which is 
also variously represented by the equiv. (Sc.) 
eroo, croodle; cf . Icel. kurra (> Sc. eurr, coo, purr: 
see curr) = Dan. kurre = D. korren = MHG. 
gurren, gerren, G. girren, coo ; Sw. knurta, kut- 
tra, coo ; F. roucouler, coo ; Hind, kuku, the coo- 
ing of a dove; Pers. huhu, a dove. Cf. coofc 2 , 
cuckoo.] I. intrans. 1. To utter a low, plain- 
tive, murmuring sound (imitated by- the sound 
of the word) characteristic of pigeons or doves. 
The stock-dove only through the forest cooes 
Mournfully hoarse. Thomson, Summer, 1. 615. 
The dark oakwood where the pigeons cooed. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 219. 
coney-burrow (k6'ni-bur"6), n. 
con^y-wlrren ra1:)Wt8 burr <>w' in the earth ; a 
SS^&r.W a 2S? 1 *' "[< <.v^n 
See cowcatcher 1 ' fTatZ'- 2' !^ eat ' ^^ 
[Thieves' slang.] 
Hence 2. To converse affectionately, like coo- 
ing doves; make love in murmuring endear- 
ments : commonly in the phrase to bill and coo. 
See biin, v. i. 
What are you doing now, 
Oh Thomas Moore? 
Sighing or suing now, 
Rhyming or wooing now, 
Billing or cooing now, 
Which, Thomas Moore? 
Byron, To Thomas Moore. 
II. trans. 1. To utter by cooing. 
In answer cooed the cushat dove 
Her notes of peace and rest and love. 
Scott, L. of the L., iii. 2. 
2. To call. [Prov. Eng.] 
a COO (ko), . [< coo, v.] The characteristic mur- 
muring sound uttered by doves and pigeons. 
A rarer visitant is the turtle-dove, whose pleasant ooo 
... I have sometimes heard. 
Lmi'ell, Study Windows, p. 19. 
The accounts, even if cooked, still exercise some check. 
J. S. Mill. 
He ... had told all the party a great bouncing He, he 
Cook'd up. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 193. 
4. To disappoint ; punish. Srockett. [Prov. 
Eng.] To cook one's goose, to kill or ruin one ; spoil 
one^ plan ; do for one. [Slang.] 
II. intrans. To prepare food for eating; act 
as cook. 
cook 1 (kuk), w. [< ME. cook, coke, cok, coc, < 
AS. coc = OS. kok = D. kok=OHG. choh, MHG. 
G. koeh = Dan. kok = Sw. kock = It. CMOCO, < L. 
coquus, also COCM.S, early L. coqttos, a cook, < co- 
quere, cook : see cook 1 , v.] One whose occupa- 
tion is the cooking of food. 
Stuarde, coke, and surueyour, 
Assenten in counselle, with-outen skome, 
How tho lorde schalle fare at mete tho morne. 
Bailees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 316. 
And the cook took up the shoulder . . . and set it be- 
fore Saul. i s m. lx. 24. 
COOk 2 (kok), r. i. [Hind, kukita, cry as a cuckoo ; 
imitative of the sound. Cf. cuckoo, coo, cock 1 , 
etc.] To make the noise uttered by the cuckoo. 
COOk* (kuk), r. i. [Also written covk. Cf. keek.] 
To appear for a moment and then suddenly dis 
appear ; appear and disappear by turns : as, he 
cookit round the corner. [Scotch.] 
