faun : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: faun	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for faun
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
faun n ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Faun \Faun\, n. [L. Faunus, fr. favere to be favorable. See {Favor}.] (Rom. Myth.) A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man. Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan. --Milton.