Word Meanings - FAUN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to FAUN)

• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• SYLVANITE
  A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• SYLVANIUM
  An old name for tellurium.
• REPRESENTATIONARY
  Implying representation; representative.
• REPRESENTER
  1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne. 2. A representative. Swift.
• REPRESENTATIVE
  Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• REPRESENTATIVENESS
  The quality or state of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with conssciousness and representativeness. Spectator.
• REPRESENT
  To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative,3. The general capability of knowledge necessarily requires that, besides the
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• SATYRIC; SATYRICAL
  Of or pertaining to satyrs; burlesque; as, satyric tragedy. P. Cyc.
• SYLVAN
  1. Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic. The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . is usually exact as well as tenacious. De Quincey. 2. Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
• REPRESENTATION
  1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb. 2. That which represents. Specifically: A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical
• SATYR
  A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness. Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, From the glad sound would not be absent long. Milton.
• SATYRION
  Any one of several kinds of orchids.
• SATYRIASIS
  Immoderate venereal appetite in the male. Quain.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• MISREPRESENTATION
  Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• MISREPRESENTATIVE
  Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.
• MISREPRESENTER
  One who misrepresents.