rabbit

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various long-eared, short-tailed, burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, such as the commonly domesticated species Oryctolagus cuniculus, native to Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, or the cottontail of the Americas.
• noun A hare.
• noun The fur of a rabbit or hare.
• noun A competitor who is designated to set a fast pace for a teammate during a long-distance race.
• noun A racehorse that is run at a fast pace early in a race in order to tire the favorite so that another horse can take the lead.
• noun A mechanical decoy that is propelled around the track in a greyhound race to incite the dogs.
• intransitive verb To hunt rabbits or hares.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To hunt or trap rabbits.
• noun A wooden implement used in mixing mortar.
• noun A wooden can used as a drinking-vessel.
• noun A rodent mammal, Lepus cuniculus, of the hare family, Leporidæ; a kind of hare notable for burrowing in the ground.
• noun Hence Any hare; a leporid, or any member of the Leporidæ.
• An interjectional imperative, equivalent to confound.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species (Lepus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet, and has been introduced into many countries. It is remarkably prolific, and has become a pest in some parts of Australia and New Zealand.
• noun (Zoöl.) a variety of the domestic rabbit having long, soft fur.
• noun a hole in the earth made by rabbits for shelter and habitation.
• noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, as the bur fish, and puffer. The term is also locally applied to other fishes.
• noun (Bot.) See Cyclamen.
• noun a piece of ground appropriated to the breeding and preservation of rabbits.
• noun (Zoöl.) the pika.
• noun a dish of which the chief constituents are melted cheese over toasted bread, flavored in various ways, as with ale, beer, milk, or spices. The name is popularly said to be a corruption of Welsh rare bit, but it is probably merely a humorous designation; -- also called Welsh rarebit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
• noun The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
• noun A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.
• noun cricket A very poor batsman; selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
• verb intransitive To hunt rabbits.
• verb US, intransitive To flee.
• verb UK, intransitive To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
• noun the fur of a rabbit
• verb hunt rabbits
• noun flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food