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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, rhebuck, rhebok, and rehboc.

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  • noun A kind of antelope, the rhebok.

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  • Cut out slices of the peele of the Lemmons, long wayes, a quarter of an inch one piece from another, and then slice the _Lemmons_ very thin, and lay them in a dish crosse, and the peeles about the _Lemmons_, and scrape a good deal of _Suggar_ upon them, and so serve them.

    A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous

  • There was another fish called a pele fish: it had a snout of a cubit long, and at the end of the vpper lip it was made like a peele.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. living/blog; living = 1; nickname = stanton-peele; entry_id = 408171; @yhealth = 1; aa = 1; addiction = 1; addiction-amp-recovery = 1; alcoholism = 1; drugs = 1; nicotine = 1; quitting = 1; relationships = 1; smoking = 1; stanton-peele = 1",

    Stanton Peele: 2010: 7 Steps Out Of Addiction 2010

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. living/blog; living = 1; nickname = stanton-peele; entry_id = 417639; @yhealth = 1; addiction-amp-recovery = 1; culture = 1; disease = 1; globalization = 1; imperialism = 1; indigenous-knowledge = 1; mental-illness = 1; science = 1; scientific-myths = 1; stanton-peele = 1",

    Stanton Peele: America's Imperialistic Mental Illness Epidemic 2010

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. media/blog; media = 1; nickname = stanton-peele; entry_id = 325762; falcon-heene = 1",

    Stanton Peele: Now Let's Pass a Law Banning Balloon Hoaxes 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. living/blog; living = 1; politics = 1; nickname = stanton-peele; entry_id = 229337; glenn-beck = 1; health-care-reform = 1; michael-moore = 1; newt-gingrich = 1; sean-hannity = 1; sicko = 1; universal-healthcare = 1",

    Stanton Peele: Health Care Reform to Destruction 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. living/blog; featured-posts = 1; living = 1; nickname = stanton-peele; entry_id = 156244; @yhealth = 1; @ylifestyle = 1; alcohol = 1; alcoholism = 1; alzheimers = 1; alzheimers-disease = 1; binge-drinking = 1; dependence = 1; drinking = 1; drugs = 1; health = 1; substance-abuse = 1",

    Stanton Peele: Ohmigod! Drinkers Think Better for Longer! Hide This From Children AND Adults! 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. living/blog; featured-posts = 1; living = 1; nickname = stanton-peele; entry_id = 394034; aa = 1; addiction = 1; addiction-amp-recovery = 1; alcohol = 1; alcohol-addiction = 1; alcoholic = 1; choices = 1; free-will = 1; fruit-flies = 1; habit = 1; health = 1; intoxication = 1; reason = 1; wellness = 1",

    Stanton Peele: Addiction: Fruit Flies Create AA Group! 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. entertainment/blog; entertainment = 1; nickname = stanton-peele; entry_id = 185833; greg-mottola = 1; jesse-eisenberg = 1; judd-apatow = 1; kristen-stewart = 1; martin-starr = 1; seth-rogan = 1; shiksa = 1",

    Stanton Peele: Shiksas in Film 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. living/blog; featured-posts = 1; living = 1; nickname = stanton-peele; entry_id = 159311; addictive-love = 1; burton-pugach = 1; codependence = 1; crazy-love = 1; linda-pugach = 1; lye-in-face = 1; sick-love = 1",

    Stanton Peele: The Aftermath of Crazy Love 2009

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