Obs. or arch. Also -borough, -berry, -bury. [See BORROW sb.1 and BERRY sb.3] A rabbit-burrow.
[1486. Bk. St. Albans, F vi. A Berry of Conyis.]
1580. Sidney, Arcadia, III. (1590), 277. Swearing … that … he would fetch him out of his cunny-berry.
c. 1600[?]. Distr. Emperor, III. i., in Bullen, O. Pl., III. 208. A crannye as bygg as a conye borrowe.
1605. Verstegan, 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.
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr., xvi. (1653), 110. About the heads of Conney-Berries.
c. 1670. Hobbes, Dial. Com. Laws (1840), 158. The place [Old Sarum] looketh so like a long cony-borough.
b. transf.
a. 1652. Brome, City Wit, V. Wks. 1873, I. 371. Can he not … read Cupids Conybery, the Park of Pleasure, Christian Love Letters, or some other Pamphlet?
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., P. Martyr. The R. Catholicks … usually stiled them Concubines, and the Lodgings that entertained them and their children Stews and cony-buries.
