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Webster 1913 Edition

Faun

Faun

,
Noun.
[L.
Faunus
, fr.
favere
to be favorable. See
Favor
.]
(Rom. Myth.)
A god of fields and shepherds, differing little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
Satyr or
Faun
, or Sylvan.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Faun

FAUN

,
Noun.
[L. faunus.] Among the Romans, a kind of demigod, or rural deity, called also sylvan, and differing little from satyr. The fauns are represented as half goat and half man.

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