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faun: see Faunus Faunus , in Roman religion, woodland deity, protector of herds and crops. He was identified with the Greek Pan. His festival was observed on Dec. 5 with dancing and merrymaking.
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faun

(in Roman legend) a rural deity represented as a man with a goat's ears, horns, tail, and hind legs

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No references found			He seemed to partake of those obscure forces of nature which the Greeks personified in shapes part human and part beast, the satyr and the faun. Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context This I waded, and went up the opposite side of the valley, past a number of sleeping houses, and by a statue--a Faun, or some such figure, MINUS the head. The Time Machine by Wells, H.G. View in context Let the reader picture to himself a series of visages presenting successively all geometrical forms, from the triangle to the trapezium, from the cone to the polyhedron; all human expressions, from wrath to lewdness; all ages, from the wrinkles of the new-born babe to the wrinkles of the aged and dying; all religious phantasmagories, from Faun to Beelzebub; all animal profiles, from the maw to the beak, from the jowl to the muzzle. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context			fault plane fault rock fault scarp fault separation fault strike fault system fault terrace fault throw fault tolerance fault tolerant fault trace fault trap fault tree fault tree analysis fault vein fault wall fault zone fault-based testing fault-block mountain fault-finding fault-line scarp Fault-tolerant systems fault-trough lake faulting Faulty Condition faun Fauna faunal extinction faunal region faunal succession, law Faunalia Faunistics faunizone Fauntleroy, Little Lord faunule Faunus Fauquier County Fauquier, Francis Faure storage battery Faure, Élie Faure, Félix Faure, Francois Felix Faure, François Félix Faure, Gabriel Fauré, Gabriel Fauré, Gabriel Urbain Fauser, Giacomo Fauset, Jessie R. Fauset, Jessie Redmon fausse-braye Faust			faulty centric occlusion Faulty Column Block Faulty Condition Faulty Condoms Give Doreen An Easy Baby Faulty Connected-Component Effective Coefficient Algorithm faulty contact faulty contact faulty contact faulty contact faulty contact point faulty contact point faulty contact point faulty contact point faulty contact point Faulty Date Logic Faulty Line Covering Algorithm Faulty Polygon faulty reasoning faulty restoration faulty restoration faulty restoration faulty restoration Faulty Row Block faulty toothbrushing faulty union faulty work Faulun Gong Faulun Gong FAUM FAUMC faun fauna fauna fauna fauna fauna Fauna (animals) Fauna (animals) Fauna (animals) Fauna and Flora International Fauna and Flora Preservation Society Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance Fauna Rescue of South Australia Inc. FAUNAA faunae faunae faunae faunal faunal faunal faunal extinction faunal region faunal regions faunal succession, law Faunalia faunally faunally faunally faunas faunas faunas

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