Convulse

kon-vuls', v.t. [-vulsed (-vulsf), -vulsing.] To draw or contract violently and irregularly, as the muscular parts of the body; to agitate, disturb, rend. [L. con and vellere, vulsum, to pluck.] — Convul's ion, -shun, n. (Med.) Unnatural contraction of the muscular parts. Any violent and irregular motion commotion disturbance spasm. — Convulsive, -6iv, a. Producing, or attended with, etc. —Convulsively, adv. Cony, ko'nl or kun'Y, n. A rabbit. [Peril. E. D. konijn, Dan. kanin, G. kaninchen, rabbit perh. fr. OF. connil or conn in, fr. L. cuniculus, rabbit, Skr. khan, to dig.]