Definition of "nilghai" [nilghai]

• An short-horned Indian antelope. (noun)

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• "During a morning's ride my greyhound put up a _nilghai_ [3] so close to us that Watson, aiming a blow at him with his sword, gashed his quarter."
• "The pig -- who, of course, will go to the ends of the earth for a full meal -- moved first by companies, scuffling over the rocks, and the deer followed, with the small wild foxes that live on the dead and dying of the herds; and the heavy-shouldered nilghai moved parallel with the deer, and the wild buffaloes of the swamps came after the nilghai."
• "Let the deer and the pig and the nilghai look to it."