Ăn’te-lōpe, n.

[Awkwardly modernized from Gr. ἀνθάλοψ, gen. -οπος, Eustathius, Hexaëm., p. 36. It occurs in Spenser’s Faëry Queen.] (Zoöl.) One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and goat. The horns of the antelope are almost always round, and annulated, or ringed.

The prong-horn antelope (Antilocapra Americana) is found across the western part of North America, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast. The common antelope of the eastern continent is the A. cervicapra. The eyes of some species, as the gazelle, are large, black, and of exquisite beauty and vivacity, and are therefore a favorite image with the Eastern poets. P. Cyc.

Antilocapra cervicapra.