RABBIT

I. noun (plural ~ or ~s) Usage: often attributive see: rub Date: 14th century any of a family (Leporidae) of long-eared short-tailed lagomorph mammals with long hind legs:, any of various lagomorphs that are born furless, blind, and helpless, that are sometimes gregarious, and that include especially the cottontails of the New World and a small Old World mammal ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ) that is the source of various domestic breeds, hare , the pelt of a ~, Welsh ~ , 4. a figure of a ~ sped mechanically along the edge of a dog track as an object of pursuit, a runner in a long-distance race who sets a fast pace for the field in the first part of the race, ~y adjective II. intransitive verb Date: 1846 to hunt ~s, ~er noun