north. dial. A squirrel.
a. 1600. Burel, Pilgremer, in Watson, Coll. Poems, II. 20 (Jam.). There wes the pikit Porcapie. The cunning and the Con [Lat. vers. (1631), sciurus] all thrie.
16[?]. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae (Hart’s ed. 1615), iii. I saw … The Con [not in ed. 1597] the Cuning and the Cat, Quhais dainty Downs with Dew were wat.
1781. J. Hutton, Tour Caves, Gloss (E. D. S.), Con, a squirrel.
1821. Lonsdale Mag., II. 124 (Lanc. Gloss.). Our young friend dissipated our fears by telling us that con was only the provincial name for a squirrel.
1869. in Lonsdale Gloss.
1878. in Cambrld. Gloss.
