The Syrian Hyrax or ‘coney’ of the O.Test.: see CHEROGRIL; taken by mediæval writers to be the hedgehog, or the porcupine (see Du Cange).
[1382. Wyclif, Deut. xiv. 7. Chameyl, haare, yrchun.] 1388 (Purvey) ibid. A cirogrille, that is, a beeste ful of prickis, and is more than an irchoun. Ibid., Lev. xi. 5. A cirogrille which chewith code.
