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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.

 

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