Obs. or dial. [Goes with CONE sb.2: both being derivs., of some kind, of OE. cínan, cán, cinen to crack, burst open: see CHINE, CHAIN.] a. intr. To gape or split open, to crack or chink. b. trans. To fissure.
1584. R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., XII. vii. 183. With charmes she makes the earth to cone [L. haec cantu finditque solum].
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., II. (1626), 26. Invading fire the upper Earth assayl’d; All chap’t and con’d; her pregnant iuyce exhal’d.
1735. Pegge, Kenticisms (E. D. S.), Cone, to crack or split with the sun, as timber does.
1887. in Kentish. Gloss.
