Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name formerly applied to one, and probably to several, of the ruminant quadrupeds of eastern Africa, etc., now known as gazels and antelopes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The true gazelle.
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- noun obsolete The true
gazelle .
Etymologies
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Arabic
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We dissuade any lady from touching or going near a zebra's mouth, or the horns of an ibex or an algazel, or the pointed bill of a heron or stork, or from putting her hand near this fine painted pig.
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