Word Meanings - FAWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck. 2. The young of an animal; a whelp. . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. Holland. 3. A fawn color.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FAWN)

• Coax
• Wheedle
• fawn
• flatter
• call
• ole
• persuade
• overcome
• seduce
• allure
• circumvent
• Cringe
• Crouch
• bend
• bow
• grabble
• grub
• Grovel
• Crawl
• cringe
• wallow
• creep

Related words: (words related to FAWN)

• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• CIRCUMVENTOR
  One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• SEDUCER
  One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• CROUCHED
  Marked with the sign of the cross. Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched.
• WALLOW
  1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak. 2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self
• GRABBLE
  Etym: 1. To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden. 2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• CREEPY
  Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.
• CREEPLE
  1. A creeping creature; a reptile. There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton . 2. One who is lame; a cripple. Thou knowest how lame a creeple
• OVERCOMER
  One who overcomes.
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• CRAWLY
  Creepy.
• CIRCUMVENTIVE
  Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.
• CREEPINESS
  An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• SCRAWLER
  One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.