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faun

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faun: see Faunus Faunus (fôn`əs), in Roman religion, woodland deity, protector of herds and crops. He was identified with the Greek Pan.
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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
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