Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of Antilopinœ (which see).
  • noun (an′ ti-lōp). [lowercase] Obsolete (English) spelling of antelope.

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  • noun blackbucks

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Examples

  • Yavé aussi une antilope c beaucoup plus joli que le chat beaucoup plus en arabesque plus travaillé et tout .... mais bon ma mere adore les chat alors autant replir sa colec '! le chat n'est pas mal quand yapa d'comparaison a coté!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • -- The antilopoid animal called Suja, has horns both on the male and female, it occurs in small herds fifteen to twenty in the wooded mountains, its hair is of the same structure as in the Moschiferus antilope; colour brown.

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • (Sheep), Deer, but most commonly the antilope Skins which they ware loosely about them.

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

  • Gibson is now able to walk, he walked out this evening and killed an antilope.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Joseph Feild to hunt for the Mule deer or the antilope neither of which we have either the Skins or Scellitens of, we detected those two men to proceed on down to the places we encamped the 16th & 17th of Septr.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Deer & a antilope to day for the Skins which the party is in want of for Clothes. this river below the big horn river resembles the Missouri in almost every perticular except that it's islands are more noumerous

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • & R. Fields killed 4 Deer & a antilope, I killed a fat

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • & Rubin fields and Collins, and encamped on the S W. Side a little below our encampment of 13th Septr. 1804, haveing made 20 Miles only. neither of the hunters killed either a Black tail deer or an antilope.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Deer & an antilope which was eaten in a Short time the Indians being so harrassed & compelled to move about in those rugid mountains that they are half Starved liveing at this time on berries & roots which they geather in the plains.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Shields killed a black tail deer & an antilope. the other hunters killed nothing. deer are very Scerce on this part of the river.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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