Also bless bok, bless-buck. [Du., f. bles blaze on forehead + bok goat.] A South African antelope, the Gazella albifrons.
1824. Burchell, Trav., II. 335. The Blesbok is so called from having a white mark on its forehead.
1869. E. Gray, Guide Brit. Museum, 2. The Blessbok, Hartebeest, and Sassaybe of South Africa.
1879. Atcherley, Trip Boërland, 73. The bless-buck, a larger antelope than the [spring-buck].
