faun

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Long after Buzz felt that another moment of it would kill him the lithe young lieutenant would be leaping about like a faun, and pride kept Buzz going though he wanted to drop with fatigue, and his shirt and hair and face were wet with sweat So much for his body.

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  1. noun Roman Mythology Any of a group of rural deities represented as having the body of a man and the horns, ears, tail, and sometimes legs of a goat.

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  • A little marble statuette of a faun was tagged Number Three. —  process 10
  • The idea of the modern faun was a charming one; but I think it a pity that the author should not have made him more definitely modern, without reverting so much to his mythological properties and antecedents, which are [170] very gracefully touched upon, but which belong to the region of picturesque conceits, much more than to that of real psychology. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Hawthorne, by Henry James, Junr.
  • But the young men have fine, loose, faun-like figures, and faces that would be strikingly handsome but for too long and prominent noses. —  New Italian sketches
  • Three horses and a stout black donkey, with their inevitable grooms, were ordered; and we took for guide a lovely faun-like boy, goat-faced, goat-footed, with gentle manners and pliant limbs swaying beneath the breath of impulse. —  New Italian sketches
  • Something of this free life was in the burning eyes, long clustering dark hair, and smooth brown bosom of the faun-like creature. —  New Italian sketches
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin Faunus, Faunus.

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  1. from Middle English faun, from Latin Faunus, in Roman mythology the protecting deity of agriculture and of shepherds, in later times identified with Pan, and accordingly represented with horns and goat's feet; hence also in plural Fauni, the same as Panes, sylvan deities; from Latin favere, be propitious: see favor.
 

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