faun

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
faun
    n 1: ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed
         ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Faun \Faun\, n. [L. Faunus, fr. favere to be favorable. See
   {Favor}.] (Rom. Myth.)
   A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the
   satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and
   half man.
   [1913 Webster]

         Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan.                --Milton.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "faun":
      Cailleac, Faunus, Pan, Priapus, Vidar, Vitharr, corn spirit,
      fertility god, field spirit, forest god, panisc, panisca, paniscus,
      satyr, silenus, sylvan deity, the goat god, vegetation spirit
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