Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CO'NE-PATE, or CO'NE-PATL
CO'NE-PATE, or CO'NE-PATL, n.
The Mexican popular name of an animal of the weasel kind in America, resembling the pole-cat in form and size, and in its fetid stench. It is the Mephitis Americana, commonly called Skunk in New England.
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