Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of numerous different African antelopes, as of the genera Eleotragus, Kobus, and some others, which frequent marshy or reedy places; a reed-buck; a water-buck. See cuts under
nagor and sing-sing.
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Examples
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It is a beautiful water-antelope of a light brownish-yellow color.
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The Barotse appear inclined to pray to alligators and eat them too, for when I wounded a water-antelope, called mochose, it took to the water; when near the other side of the river an alligator appeared at its tail, and then both sank together.
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We were nearing a point when we saw a beautiful water-antelope, known under the name of _mochose_.
In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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